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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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4Xgl5 TIL: A woman disappeared in 1993. Her 3-year-old son claimed that his father (her husband) had murdered her, but he wasn't believed. 20 years later, when renovating the family home, he dug up his mother's remains in the backyard.
vjar TIL Thomas Silverstein holds the world record for being isolated from the rest of the world. He has been in solitary confinement since 1983 and is still going.
v1kMR TIL Jimi Hendrix, one of the most influential guitarists of all time,was technically a"One-Hit Wonder"
KYQ6J TIL That the US government is trying to pass a law with clear definitions on what an Alien is and if any secret government agencies have any Alien technology they should disclose it to the public …
dZN7 TIL A Bahraini Princess eloped with an American Marine she met in a shopping mall.