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TIL Anthony Hopkins has Aspergers

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a8NZb TIL Bill Gates wrote his first book, The Road Ahead, in 1995. Gates predicted video on demand and computers that will fit in your pocket, and was optimistic about the rise of digital agents, how internet will affect the structure of cities
5r8p TIL An artist carved a black violin (Blackbird) from his grandfather’s headstone (diabase), and used mammoth ivory for the bridge, gold leaf for the interior, Harjedalan (black) rock for the back plate, and ebony for the rest. It took him 2 years to make and weighs 2 kilograms.
8aQob TIL of Bicameral theory. The idea that humans have been a self aware and conscious species for only a few thousand years. It's based off the overwhelming absence of introspection and meditation in very ancient texts.
Y7G0Z TIL hot spots fed by mantle plumes can result in lava floods in intraplate regions. These results in much more lava (hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt) being released than regular eruptions and create flood basalts.
Eg8A0 TIL the Patriots under Bill Belichick haven’t signed a player they drafted in the first three rounds to a second contract since Duron Harmon (Third Round, 2013).