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TIL: The world’s smallest hard drive is only 96 atoms big.

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wkVM TIL it is estimated that at any given time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk. That means about 50 million people are drunk right now.
4krgo TIL the first animals to receive formal scientific names were spiders. Carl Alexander Clerck published 'Svenska Spindlar' (Swedish Spiders) in 1757, becoming the first person to consistently apply Linnaean binomial nomenclature to animals.
rRaxy TIL That Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey the same time the novel was being written. Both Arthur C. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the novel together, but eventually, only Clarke was listed as the author.
be79 TIL chickens were first domesticated not for the purpose of food or egg production but for cock fighting, and in fact it wasn’t until the 20th century that egg and meat production began to be stressed.
1pj8 TIL The United States Military runs a psychological warfare program called Sockpuppet that is tasked with manipulating social media for propaganda purposes. It includes creating fake profiles and distributing fake user created material.