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TIL that the power button symbol is based off of binary’s off (0) and on (1)

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d8OAZ TIL despite her repeated claims to be more than 85% correct, a 2013 article found that "psychic" Sylvia Browne was accurate in 0/33 of her predictions. For example, she had predicted that she would die at age 88; she died at age 77.
nWogr TIL In 2021, a US drone strike mistakenly targeted a man delivering water for a California-based nonprofit
pkGb TIL Heroin was created to be a less addictive substitute to Morphine
4k4mJ TIL of the concept of a Savior Sibling, a child who is conceived in order to provide a stem cell transplant to a sibling that is affected with a fatal disease
5Y7Z8 TIL in 1971 a woman asked a judge to sterilize her “somewhat retarded” 15-year old daughter without her knowledge, which he granted that day without a hearing. She later sued him, but it was ruled he was immune because he ordered it as a judicial function, even though he ignored due process.