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TIL that a lot of printers add nearly invisible yellow dots that can be used to track down where a printed file came from. MIC was originally created to prevent the use of laser printers to create counterfeit money.

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oRvoo TIL A report about American fast food consumption concludes people actually eat more fast food as their income levels go up
veex TIL that the primacy effect allows us to remember the first items in a list and the recency effect allows us to remember the last items in a list meaning the items in the middle of a list are often forgotten.
W0Xo TIL When WR104, a binary star goes supernova, the solar system could be flooded with gamma radiation destroying all life on earth.
v11aB TIL Scientist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski survived being shot in the face by a particle accelerator beam
mnEo TIL there is a tree whose fruit smells and tastes like peanut butter.