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@til Today I learned that the word “gorilla” comes from Hanno the Navigator, who discovered a “tribe of hairy women” as he was sailing down the west coast of Africa, whom his local guides called the “gorillai”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanno/_the/_Navigator#Gorillai

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@til Today I learned that the Austrian School of Economics, on which our current economic models are based, is not itself based on empiricism and in fact argues that it should not be based on empiric studies at all but on thought experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology#Austrian_economics

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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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