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TIL Pikachu's name is mix of the Japanese for sparkle, pikapika, and the sound of squeaking, which is chūchū. So Pikachu's name means "Sparkle-squeak"
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TIL before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was completely constructed, there were concerns among the public that its high-energy experiments would lead to the formation of micro black holes or strangelets, a dark-matter-like particle that can convert all matter it touches into strange matter.
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TIL Some dinosaurs had a possible lifespan of 300 years due to their slow metabolisms
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TIL that the han dynasty was founded because a sheriff let a few inmates escape and didn’t want to die.
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TIL it’s routine practice in the US and many other countries for turkeys to have their beaks trimmed without anesthesia, which can cause something similar to “phantom limb pain” that humans experience after amputations.