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TIL that researchers from Aalto University in Finland have successfully tested quantum teleportation of macroscopic objects

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R7rl4 TIL inoculation was introduced to America in 1706 by an West African slave named Onesimus, who taught his owner Cotton Mather how his parents inoculated him as a child. in 1721, Mather used this method to successfully combat a smallpox outbreak in Boston.
R5lRQ TIL Celine Dion met her husband when she was 12 and he was… 38
PBNn TIL Roman Emperor Caligula was told that he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. He then built a two-mile temporary floating bridge and walked his horse across.
5VrYR TIL more than 143 million Americans live in places that have some potential for shaking from an earthquake that can cause damage
KO846 TIL The human eye has a resolution of 576 megapixels. 8K UHDTVs are around 33 megapixels.