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TIL that babies are born without kneecaps.

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eprNk TIL that modern smartphones have 5,000 times the processing power than the most powerful supercomputer in the world in the 1980s.
yL0V TIL Ian McDiarmid was only 38 years old when he played the Emperor in Return of the Jedi
xK0b TIL Before the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther confessed for hours at a time. Annoyed, the priest told him “If you’re going to confess so much, why don’t you go do something worth confessing? Kill your mother or father! Commit adultery! Quit coming in here with such flummery and fake sins.“
86KZ TIL that Facebook has an “empathy team” to help its engineers and designers relate to the concerns of actual human beings.
WOQX TIL that the roundest object in the world was handcrafted by one man because no machine in the world could match his precision.