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TIL NASA scientists created a nanoscale vacuum tube that can potentially replace silicon transistors in future electronics

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nemMG TIL Harper Lee and Truman Capote were childhood friends who wrote together after school. To Kill a Mockingbird’s character Dill is based on Capote. Lee was an “assistant researchist” for Capote to help write his book In Cold Blood. Both of them spent two months conducting interviews for the book.
w55Y TIL you don’t need a drivers license to compete in NASCAR.
ajOo TIL airline pilots in the 1930s and 40s would navigate by listening to a stream of automated “A” and “N” Morse codes when visibility was poor. They would turn the aircraft to the right when hearing an “N” stream, to the left on an “A” stream and fly straight ahead while hearing a steady tone.
bE80 TIL that the last car to have a cassette deck come standard was the Lexus SC430, in 2010.
oBddR TIL that we can’t taste as well at high altitude.