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TIL printers from Canon, Xerox, others add nearly-invisible dots to each printed page containing encoded print date and serial number of printer

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ZpXNQ Today I learned that if a spider is big enough, it can hiss by moving the hairs on its body a certain way - it sounds somewhere between rustling leaves and a snake
16lNW TIL International Women's day is mostly an Eastern Bloc/Asian holiday officially, with only a few western countries going out to celebrate it in an official manner.
ANdEw TIL the Andy Griffeth show was a spinoff of another show that ran from 1953-1964 and starred an actor born as Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz
lov75 TIL that Bhutan is the only country in the world whose nature converts more CO2 than the land itself produces.
lovA7 TIL that between 1871 and 1885 Marianne North, a Victorian biologist, and botanical painter painted in oil over 800 paintings while visiting 17 countries on 6 continents. Towards the end of her life, she presented her life's work - 832 paintings - to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.