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TIL: Your fingernail grows about 1 nanometer per second, so in a few seconds, it grows roughly the length of the smallest features in modern 3nm CPUs.

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9wAPD TIL that surveillance and assessment mechanisms are often unobtrusively woven into video games, allowing companies to build detailed profiles of the people playing the game. Researchers say the level of privacy intrusion is comparable to dating apps and social media platforms.
4XNQN TIL flotsam, jetsam, lagan & derelict all have very specific legal meanings under the law of the admiralty and marine salvage
6Eool TIL in a survey of leading economists, only 8 percent agreed with a proposal to prohibit "unconscionably excessive" price gouging during natural disasters in Connecticut. 51 percent disagreed with the proposal, 15 percent were uncertain and 8 percent had no opinion
pZM4 TIL: A Chimpanzee, name Julie, started a fashion trend among the other apes in her group in 2010 by sticking a hair of grass in her ear. The style caught on shortly after the act.
LQrBv TIL that the only time when more than half of the American public believed that the Apollo space program was worth the expense came at the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969. Even then it only received 53% approval.