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TIL Apple's mobile chips (bionic, A series) are surprisingly not yet on ARMv9 instruction set (ratified in 2021)

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wLGAM TIL ancient Egyptians didn't use Hieroglyphics as an everyday writing system. They reserved this for special functions. The Egyptians used two script-like writing systems called Hieratic and Demotic. This eventually became Coptic script.
QJdde TIL Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to fight a silverback gorilla.
QJMxM TIL Einstein's gravitational wave theory was proved right 100 years later
eK14 TIL judges will almost never instruct the jury that they are free to disregard the law; but if the jury disregards the law on its own initiative, then the verdict stands.
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