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TIL About Lemon socialism where profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

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b9r04 TIL that lightning is created by water droplets and ice crystals bumping together in a could causing static electricity and then released from the cloud in the form of lightning. I am 30 years old and apparently didn't listen at school.
b6yMN TIL Check Point Technologies, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the US, reported last year that over the previous year they saw a substantial increase in AI-based scams that mimic the voices of loved ones in distress. In total, Americans lost about $10 billion to phone & cyber scams in 2022.
W7ZkX TIL that Marten Stig Andersen, the lead audio designer for Inside, created said game's soundtrack by routing audio through an actual human skull and recording it.
0MWL TIL cultural baggage may cause plane crashes and mountain climbing disasters. In a study of 5,000 Himalayan expeditions, scientists found that Chinese alpinists, for instance, were more likely to die on the mountain than Austrians.
R7J84 TIL why we use QWERTY keyboards. Mechanical typewriters would jam if people hit the keys too quickly, so they had to put the common letters far apart from each other and QWERTY was created to slow typists down.