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TIL production of the TR-808 drum machine, an early hip-hop staple, came to an end when improvements in semi conductors eliminated the source of defective transistors that was the secret to the sizzling sound it was known for.

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6oRm TIL The most accurate depiction of a black hole ever created was for the movie “Interstellar”. “It’s the product of a year of work by 30 people and thousands of computers.”
makM TIL in the most extensive case of health care billing fraud in US Department of Justice history, in which 243 people were busted for fraudulent billing to the tune of $712M, one Doctor had billed for 205 hours in a single day.
QNXea TIL there's a new metabolic surgery that mitigates the effects of type 2 diabetes (DM2) and obesity in patients that is being done in Mexico (Surgery does not cure diabetes but it does control it.)
awR9o TIL That swearing emerges by age two and becomes adult-like by ages 11 or 12. By the time children enter school, they have a working vocabulary of 30-40 offensive words.
wEQP TIL that early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.