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TIL the voice in your head while reading is subvocalization

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E6o0 TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)
ADr0g TIL the Summer Olympics have only been cancelled three times since the beginning of the 20th century and all three because of war.
MEJb TIL TBS speeds up reruns of Seinfeld (and other shows) for more room to show advertisements
oeML TIL a “dash” is 1/8 of a teaspoon, a “pinch” is 1/16 of a teaspoon, and a “smidgen” is 1/32 of a teaspoon.
WpeX TIL there are millions of chemical bombs lying in our oceans after being dumped there after the first and second world war, because authorities didn’t have a way to dispose of them properly.