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TIL There were ancient stone tablets in Japan’s recent tsunami struck areas with inscriptions “Do not build your homes below this point!”

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VMvem TIL of half-life of knowledge is the amount of time that has to elapse before half of the knowledge or facts in a particular area is superseded or shown to be untrue. An engineering degree went from having a half life of 35 years in ca. 1930 to about 10 years in 1960.
M5EA TIL when Tommy Chong went to prison, his cellmate was Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street. Chong is the one who convinced him to write his memoirs
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