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TIL the Judge Dredd series, running since 1977 without retcons, proceeds in real-time; as a year passes, one does in the comic. It is hailed as one of the best satires of American culture with a trend to predict things like mass surveillance, the rise of populism, and aspects of pandemic response.

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aJKb TIL that on a trip to Sierra Leone in 2009, Salma Hayek spontaneously breast fed a local infant
xJog TIL: Ernest Rutherford once said, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
yVONv TIL - The term toast came from the Romans. They would put a piece of burnt toast in to their wine glasses to temper some of the bad wine the Romans sometimes had to drink. The charcoal from the toast would reduce the acidity of off wines making them more palatable.
WZOB TIL The biggest squid ever caught weighed an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires
VMODZ TIL there are now TPU microprocessors. CPUs are ones and zeroes, GPUs are threes for doing triangles to make polygons and TPUs are fours for processing matrices for AI deep learning ten times faster.