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TIL Steve Harvey sent a television for Christmas every year to the Teacher Who Said He'd Never Be on Television.

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Oo816 TIL that, because male chickens don't lay eggs, approximately 7 billion day-old male chicks are killed by the poultry industry annually; one of the recommended methods is live "maceration" (being thrown into a high speed grinder)
wL0Y1 TIL Cyber Philosopher Jaron Lanier proposed a 'reverse Moore's Law': As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. The larger a software program gets the more legacy code gums up its efficiency.
0dy9R TIL Mary the Color Scientist is a thought experiment about a scientist in a black & white world. She has extensive knowledge of color but no actual experience of it. The experiment asks whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside of the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.
epM66 TIL Ear Pulling is considered a sport in some cultures
77VX TIL Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The scent is from water interacting with plant oils.