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TIL the current fastest Wifi band (6GHz) already transmits, but most people can't access it. As of 2023, tech giants such as Apple only have 2 phones that support it.

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BgLQx TIL: When Texas entered the Union as a slave state in 1845, a legal technicality created an ungoverned, lawless strip of land (which later became the Oklahoma panhandle). People from Kansas moved in to evade strict alcohol laws and the (unofficial) capital was called "Beer City".
69MVW TIL the Five Stages of Grief do not always go in exact order from denial and anger to acceptance, and often vary from person to person. The psychiatrist who created the model said she regretted writing them in a way that is widely misunderstood.
8ee4K TIL Waffle House gives out music awards for the most-played songs on their jukeboxes
d8bk8 TIL of the Future Library Project which includes 100 works of literature to remain unread and unpublished until 2114. A thousand trees were planed in 2014 to supply the paper for the anthologies of these works. Each year a new notable author is chosen, most recently Ocean Vuong.
V7KB TIL Project MARAUDER, a coaxial plasma railgun powered by the SHIVA STAR capacitor bank, was designed by the USAF and capable of “[producing] doughnut shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating effects when hitting its target.” It was classified in 1993.