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TIL that Australia has an alternative to the Easter Bunny known as Easter Bilby

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y1jV TIL an online gamer mortgaged his irl home to purchase a virtual property in the Entropia Universe for $100,000. He later sold the same property called “Club Neverdie” for roughly $635,000.00.
eJkg TIL Some mines are set to explode in response to changes in magnetic and acoustic fields. Sailors on minesweepers are not allowed to have wire coat-hangers because they could kill their magnetic signature and set off a mine.
lk1N TIL Nikola Tesla described a method where “an impenetrable wall of force can be erected around the United States”. This coming from a new FBI records release (part 3 of 3 page 62).
VBGD TIL Ernest Hemingway along with his father, brother, sister, and granddaughter all committed suicide.
LkPDp TIL Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network.An Android phone can become a “mini seismometer” because it has an accelerometer — the thing that detects if you’ve rotated it or not. Android’s system uses the data from that sensor to see if the phone is shaking.