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TIL the MOSFET (the transistor) is the single most manufactured item in human history, with 13 sextillion (1.3 × 10²²) created since 1960— equivalent to two transistors for every tonne of matter for the entire planet

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D16Ap TIL Victorian London was frantically looking for a solution for what to do with all their dead, and Architect Thomas Wilson proposed the Metropolitan Sepulchre, a 94 story "Death Pyramid." It would have dominated London's skyline and housed up to 5 million bodies, and even received financial support
kORpg TIL of Willie James Howard, a 15 year old African-American boy who was lynched for writing a love letter to a white girl. No charges were ever brought against his killers.
160w8 TIL that during the 2001 anthrax attacks, one of the biggest concerns of investigators, was ensuring that smallpox samples had not been placed in with the anthrax.
5YknB TIL that architecture was a field of mathematics in much of the ancient world and many of the best know ancient buildings were designed by mathematicians
QN9Ye TIL Bolivia has experienced more than 190 coups d'état and revolutions since its independence was declared in 1825