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TIL Doc Brown is Hacker. Support PBS lol

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9wDwr TIL that the most advanced semiconductors (as of 2023) are manufactured by precisely shooting a beam of plasma at a droplet of (molten) tin, creating an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) beam necessary to manufacture a 5nm transistor.
0K5y TIL Robert Downey Jr. was able to return to the big screen after his drug addicted past because Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective after no one else would insure him on a movie set.
68OJ TIL Green Day payed to host a schools prom at a different location when the school board cancelled it because they didn’t want same sex couples at their prom
D1PND TIL The only Mexican to die on the Titanic was Manuel Uruchurtu Ramírez. A politician who gave up his seat on a rescue boat to woman who wanted to see her child and husband. She had lied to him about her family and survived.
0dP5L TIL a remote northern Quebec mining town has a 1.3km long, 5 storey apartment building that serves as a windbreak for the rest of town and lets residents stay indoors all winter