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TIL that using carbon nanotubes, Stanford engineers have created the first basic computer that operates faster and consumes less energy when compared to systems made from silicon chips (pic)

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7ZyM TIL Winston Churchill’s famous witticisms were planned weeks in advance by studying the issues and imaging all possible social interactions. He did this to combat a speech impediment.
b9O8E TIL in 1946 the Soviet Union built a secret city called City 40 to house workers of a nearby nuclear plant and their families. For decades the fenced city and its 100k inhabitants were officially non existent. Today the city is called Ozersk and it's been exposed to 5x the radiation of Chernobyl.
vPpGx TIL that people are more creative in the shower
9YxlG TIL Crab mentality is a way of thinking best described by the phrase, "If I can't have it, neither can you." The metaphor refers to a pattern of behavior noted in crabs when they are trapped in a bucket.
7avp TIL a woman was imprisoned for 15 days and deported for allowing her kindergarten class to name a teddy bear Muhammad