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TIL of the hard problem of consciousness. The difficulty for the scientific community to put the experience of senses (qualia), and the existence of consciousness, into a valid scientific physical system.

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XEDm8 TIL Moore's Law states the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every 2ys, however, it's balanced out by Binn's Law, which states: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Because the more machines are capable of, the more we throw at them.
ERA7 TIL a store refused to decorate a 3 yr old child’s cake with “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler!” The public attention from his father’s outrage at this refusal expedited his removal from the home. The father no longer has custody of any of his 9 children due to “instability” and lack of court compliance.
KOEXG TIL some of the biggest flying birds ever to exist may have lived alongside humans in the Americas, and may have even influenced Native myths.
5bgB TIL a man intentionally drove a $2.2 million Bugatti Veyron into lake to scam insurance
vPpj8 TIL Niʻihau, known as the Forbidden Isle, is a Hawaiian island completely owned by the Robinson family. The island only has 84 inhabitants, is mostly closed-off to tourists, and was once considered as the United Nations headquarters.