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TIL The nanoscale transistors found on modern microchips can be turned on and off at an unthinkable rate of over 100 billion times a second.

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awRGL TIL Russell Crowe, a New Zealand actor and film producer, is the only non-Australian to be featured on an Australian stamp other than Queen Elizabeth II of England, and was featured twice. He has also been rejected in his bid to become an Australian citizen twice.
4karo TIL of Buttergate - a 2021 controversy caused by Canadian dairy farmers adding palm oil to cows' diets, resulting in butter that didn't spread at room temperature.
vPEGD TIL during the filming of the bulgarien movie Khan Asparuh 20,000 soldiers and 1,300 horses were mobilized. NATO was thinking that Bulgaria is preparing for a war.
Mmn7 TIL that David Bowie doesn’t actually have two differently colored eyes, but his left pupil is permanently dilated
ANwad TIL the UK exports cheese to France, tea to China and boomerangs to Australia