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TIL that Bluetooth was named after a Danish king, and the logo is a rune-ligature composed of his initials.

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j6NxM TIL about the Widmanstätten pattern wich forms in asteroids and because of many factors including temperature, pressure, time and iron/nickel content, it's impossible to recreate on earth in the same way
x6lk1 TIL that in the 16th-19th centuries there were dog-powered rotisseries, turned by a breed of dogs called turnspit dogs that resembled corgis.
gMkRL TIL one of the best Go players in the world retired in 2019 after losing 1-4 against the AlphaGo program. He argued that he could never be the top Go player due to the increasing dominance of AI, calling them "an entity that cannot be defeated". He was the only one to win a match against AlphaGo.
ADdOn TIL, killer whales are actually a species of large dolphins!
69NOl TIL that King Christian X of Denmark regularly traveled without security during WW2 and spoke out against antisemitism while living under Nazi occupation, eventually rescuing 95% of Denmark’s Jewish population by relocating them to Sweden.