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TIL Nokia is developing a charging technology that can harvest radiowaves, which would recharge your phone while it’s on standby

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PY7xG TIL Nero never fiddled while Rome burned, because there were no fiddles in Rome. Violins were not invented until some 1400 years later.
Pjxe TIL Queen guitarist Brian May is an astrophysicist and member of the NASA team that interprets data from Pluto.
N71YN TIL when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, they had about 15 seconds of fuel left.
78NP7 TIL horsehair worm parasites force crickets to jump into water, in some areas these suicidal crickets can account for 60% a trout's diet.
D1M6p TIL the bassist of the band Explosions in the Sky (famous for the Friday Night Lights soundtrack) got detained in an airport post-9/11 when "This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow” was found written on his guitar. The phrase was coincidentally on the album artwork of their latest release right before 9/11.