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Today I learned

TIL that Activision has a patent for manipulating multiplayer lobbies to increase exposure to people with paid skins and get players to spend more money on microtransactions this way

freepatentsonline.com/9789406.
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Today I learned

TIL that the first wind turbine was introduced in 1887 by a Scot called James Blyth. He offered to power the street lights of the village of Marykirk, near Aberdeen, using his 33ft turbine – the villagers refused and called it “the work of the devil.”

historytoday.com/miscellanies/
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Today I learned

TIL that Ron Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for most appearances in adult films at +2k films where he 'performed.' His father was a physicist professor at New York's Queens College, while his mother was an US Office of Strategic Services officer and book editor.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jere
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TIL the white sushi rolls (ex California Roll) is an inside-out sushi roll called "uramaki" and it was invented in N. America by Japanese chef, Ichiro Machita in LA, in the 60s as a way to introduced people outside of Japan to sushi, bc the seaweed on the outside was not as appealing to non-Japanese

allaboutsushiguide.com/uramaki
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TIL the white sushi rolls (ex California Roll) is an inside-out sushi roll called "uramaki" and it was invented in N. America by Japanese chef, Ichiro Machita in LA, in the 60s as a way to introduced people outside of Japan to sushi, bc the seaweed on the outside was not as appealing to non-Japanese

Kevin LaRose He/Him

@todayilearned @luv4music1231 I’ve only eaten sushi once. It was like 35 years ago, and I was visiting a friend who was working at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley. I only have a hazy memory of it, because by the time I was talked into it I was very much under the influence of adult beverages. I just remember it was really spicy, like eating horseradish straight.

Today I learned

TIL the Dyatlov Pass incident, the mysterious unexplained death of nine skiers in 1959, sparked sixty years of conspiracy theories. Theories such as soviet weapons test, yeti attack & UFO heat ray, but was finally solved in 2021 and shown to have been a slab avalanche.

nature.com/articles/s43247-020
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Today I learned

TIL actress Chloe Bennet changed her name from Chloe Wang to avoid getting cast as only an ethnic Asian American. Bennet is her father's first name.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Be
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Today I learned

TIL that originally Pixar made computers and made 3D animations to show how powerful their computers were. People liked the cartoons so much they later became an entertainment company

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_Im
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