kathrin

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@til Today I learned that the first Xerox copier regularly caught fire, so they shipped it with a fire extinguisher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox/_914

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@til Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

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@til Today I learned that Ritalin (Methylphenidate) was named after the inventor’s wife Marguerite “Rita” Panizzon, because it improved her tennis game (article in German). https://archive.li/VGcQD#selection-635.181-635.308

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[–] kathrin@isno.wales 23 points 1 month ago

This is the kind of attitude that made people lose the Emu wars.

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