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TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that if your finger were the size of the Earth you could feel the difference between houses and cars.”

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W7pZB TIL the Therac 25, a computer controlled radiation therapy machine, killed six people as a result of a computer bug that allowed the machine to inject lethal doses of radiation into patients.
b9EMa TIL that UK supermarket chains source their bottled water in the same place
wda1 TIL The first female pilot to ever serve in the Norwegian military was beheaded by a mob in Afghanistan in 2011, killed along with 6 others, in retaliation for the burning of the Qur'an by controversial “pastor” Terry Jones in the United States.
oBB1R TIL the small city of Sitakunda in Bangladesh has the largest ship-breaking industry in the world.
v8ED TIL the city of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada with only around 200,000 people is home to the largest Oktoberfest celebration outside of Germany.