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TIL Steve Jobs didn't let his kids use iPads. "“They haven’t used [the iPad]...We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

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yVyMv TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil
4X6pb TIL that in 1986, the American Physical Society held a conference in Las Vegas. Most of the 4000 physicists didn't play at the casinos, resulting in the city's worst week ever, and the organization being asked by the city to never return.
yZaX TIL the reason a Blu-Ray disc holds 5x more data than a DVD is because a blue laser has a lower wavelength than a red one, which means it can read and write data more precisely, much like writing with a ballpoint pen instead of a crayon.
DQP9g TIL a man once broke a Guinness World Record by playing poker for 5+ days in a row with no sleep... AND WON
oRKXE TIL The Saint-Bélec slab (2150–1600 BCE) is a stone artefact from Brittany thought to be the earliest map of any known territory. The slab was discovered in 1900 and then forgotten for more than a century in the cellar at the Château de Kernuz, where it was rediscovered in 2014.