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TIL that a 12 inch semiconductor wafer costs $19000 to make and produces around 215000 RFID chips for use in disposable subway tickets. Each chips are around 0.5x0.5 mm in size

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b69GE TIL Leonardo Da Vinci's Philosophy teacher died because he "consumed too much watermelon"
WneB TIL every year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, after the last plane has left for the winter, the remaining scientists hold a screening of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, which is about a shape-shifting alien that terrorizes scientists trapped at an Antarctic research station.
lo17G TIL Two German brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler, worked together during WWII making sports shoes. After a huge fall out between the two, they split up and started their own rivalry firms - Adidas and Puma.
yRw8 TIL that the Japanese dub of “transformers: Beast Wars” changed female Airazor to male, which resulted in the dub having the franchise’s first gay romance when the English production had Airazor involved with a male character
6mk8 TIL that when people die in huge crowd ‘stampedes’, it’s rarely from being trampled, it’s from being crushed and suffocated (while still standing) by densely packed bodies.