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TIL that if batteries had advanced at the same pace as computer processors, a double a cell would contain more energy than a tactical nuke!

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8aGKV TIL that Taco Bell failed to pay two Michigan men who created the Taco Bell Chihuahua mascot and were later court ordered to pay them $42 million dollars.
nev1r TIL that during the Blitz people tried to carry on working as usual and shops which had their windows blown out often put up humorous signs such as "We are still open - more open than usual".
epy94 TIL a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company's CFO in a video conference call that included several other members of staff, all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations. Everyone he saw was fake.
Pv0J TIL sunflowers can “remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours”. And “experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m2”.
5nkk TIL that, if the U.S weren’t controlling the price, due to the dwindling supply of helium a balloon would cost over $100.