Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,

Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and lost

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Laser is an acronym and doesn’t have a god damned Z in it.

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Laser is no longer an acronym. It’s now an anacronym, which means it’s its own word (despite originally being an acronym)

Source: Wikipedia

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Well TIL!

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TIL - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

That reminds me, so is SCUBA, RADAR and MODEM…I miss the old History Channel shows, especially Modern Marvels

SCUBA: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (Blew my mind for some reason when I learned that)
RADAR: Radio Detection and Ranging (I’ve watched alot of WWII documentaries)
MODEM: Modulation Demodulation (I’ve worked in tech)

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So is Tuba: Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus

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Also, Lithuania is really good at making the fancy ones, like ones for research, variable frequency ones, femtosecond ones, etc.

I had to look it up, but we’re #13 by global export value (not counting laser diodes)

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