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TIL that Texas Instruments invented the silicone transistor, the semiconductor, transistor radio, and TTL chips. They’re also 192nd on the Fortune 500 list, with a worth of $100 billion, and only 3% of their annual revenue comes from the calculators we always associate with them.

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K01J TIL since Hershey changed their formula to no longer include cocoa butter, they are legally prevented from labeling some of their candies as having “Milk Chocolate”, and must instead say they are “chocolate candy,” “made with chocolate” or “chocolatey.”
rRQR4 TIL Quantum computers can solve problems that are impossible or would take a traditional computer an impractical amount of time (a billion years) to solve by qubits which have a third state called “superposition”, in addition to 1 and 0 that allows them to represent a one or a zero at the same time.
JYaPm TIL all three members of Bee Gees revealed during a copyright trial that they never learned to read or write sheet music despite being among the most prolific songwriters of all time. Instead, they developed a trial-and-error process and relied on their staff to transcribe the results.
9axB TIL of Forgetmenot whose superpower is that everyone forgets about him even machines. he also been one of the original members of the X-Men its just that they forget about him
pvKO TIL Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard once said “If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, 'No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”