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TIL King Tut's knife was made from meteorite iron.

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o5jo TIL the Peking University in Beijjing has developed “smart tags”; small inexpensive tabs that stick to food packaging and change color when it goes bad.
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J1OLk TIL that privacy self-management (i.e., the principle that people individually manage their privacy via notice and consent) is based on multiple "fundamentally wrong" assumptions.
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