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TIL the super-rich can watch theatrically-released movies at home via a $35,000 streaming box for $500 each (if you own a 100+ inch screen and pass a background check first)

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ADDbn TIL in 2011, a Swedish man was arrested for splitting an atom in his kitchen
oRKeE TIL that those plastic wall clocks in schools are actually atomic, and the reason they speed ahead when they get messed up is due to a radio signal from NIST called WWVB
ANAlw TIL that a prototype television was shown to the public in 1925 at Selfridge's department store in London.
KWyw TIL In 1977 a Chinese woman with no medical degree anonymously found a malaria cure. 38 years later, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.
knmg TIL American Police killed more people in March (111) than the entire UK police have killed since 1900