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TIL someone is creating sticky notes that can be used as flash drives

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w6V6 TIL that in 2012, IBM created a short film titled, “A Boy And His Atom,” using stop-motion of individual Carbon atoms magnified at over 100,000,000 times. Guinness World Records has verified it as “The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.”
R7EY8 TIL that footage is called footage because film used to be measured in feet.
gyBW TIL Scientists put slime mold onto a model of a map of Tokyo, with food representing urban centers. After a day, it created a network almost identical to Tokyo’s actual rail network. Human designers created that network to be as efficient as possible; slime mold did the same, but without a brain
4k0Rw TIL Indian wrestler “The Great Gama” would do 5000 squats, 3000 pushups and drink 10 litres of milk every day
LNkV TIL Rube Goldberg never built a Rube Goldberg Machine. He was a cartoonist and only drew them out.