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TIL: That the Playboy Magazine was named after a defunct car company

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NXxOQ TIL that Chindōgu is the practice of inventing gadgets which serve a purpose but are impractical or silly. A term coined by Kenji Kawakami with some early Chindōgu including a toilet roll dispenser you wear on your head for hay fever sufferers and glasses with inbuilt funnels for eyedrop application
rRnvw TIL a good portion of the worlds web traffic encryption is controlled by lava lamps.
PWLe TIL that the average net worth for an African American family is $4,955…less than the average family has in India.
GYwRG TIL when Philip Glass was composing Music in Twelve Parts, he only finished the first part as he intended for it to be played by 12 musicians; but when a friend took a listen and asked what the other 11 parts was gonna be like, Glass went on to compose the other parts as a challenge.
9w0mD TIL the US accidentally dropped four nuclear hydrogen bombs on Spain in 1966. Two of them partially detonated and one was lost for 2 months and a half.