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TIL there is a medical code for being struck by a turtle

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VMQPQ TIL that Benjamin Franklin, to drive sales of his almanac, predicted that a rival publisher would die on a certain date. When the rival didn’t die, Franklin published his obituary anyway and claimed the rival was an imposter. After the rival’s death, Franklin commended the imposters for stopping.
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9w6lB TIL Fraunhofer FEP developed an OLED microdisplay with 10,000 dpi in 28 nm technology
neBAB TIL The Power of Love, the first number-one hit in the US for Huey Lewis and the News, was written for the movie Back to the Future.
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