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TIL that Google has invested over $500 million in a secretive startup company called Magic Leap, who aims to release retinal display VR devices.

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a8GA TIL that phone numbers are seven digits because that was once thought to be about the limit of the brain’s working memory
d8NZZ TIL Canada is one of the oldest continual monarchies in the world. Established in either the 15th or 16th Century, it is older than the British monarchy which took a break between 1649 and 1660.
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