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TIL in Will Smith’s 1999 movie adaptation of the 1965 TV series “Wild Wild West,” the giant steampunk spider was actually pretty appropriate for the source material. The TV show has been credited as “one of the more visible origins of the steampunk subculture.”

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VMO44 TIL In 1912, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo invented a chess-playing machine that could solve a king and rook vs king endgame. It didn't always deliver mate in the fewest number of moves, nor always within the 50-move rule limit but it would checkmate the opponent every time.
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9wJ46 TIL in 🇮🇪 the TV licence man can entre your home without a warrant
EgPed TIL that the reason crystals and rocks feel cold to the touch is that they have "high thermal inertia". In other words, a rock that sits on a table in a 24°C room will want to take in heat from our 36.8°C bodies,.. and that feels cold. Once it has gained that 12.8°C it does not feel cold any more.
N1LP TIL that after 21 years, Trent Reznor is finally going to release the soundtrack from the video game “Quake” as an album on vinyl. No solid release date is yet given but release is expected “this year” according to Rolling Stone magazine.