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TIL that the official measurement of a pixel is 1/96 of an inch (0.26mm)

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ADN4d TIL the writer Julie Birchill wrote of suicide that it's "nice for young men finally to find something that they’re better at than girls". Her own son later took his own life
9YmBm TIL the Finnish government recently invested €98 million in a new central library. Finnish writers receive library royalties—they are almost as much per borrowed book as the royalty for each paperback sold.
jg8X TIL Samsung Smart TV sends a recording of everything you speak in front of it to a third party, according to its privacy policy
a88y9 TIL The presidential yacht of Yugoslavia, Galeb, was a former Italian and Nazi warship. The Nazis minelayer was sunk by the Allies in 1944 and Yugoslavia raised it, converting it to a yacht in 1952. Ship visitors include Queen Elizabeth II, Khrushchev, Nehru, Nasser, and Kurt Douglas.
9wKAm TIL that the London Hammer, discovered in 1936 in Texas, is a controversial out-of-place artifact that appears to be a 19th-century tool encased in rock purportedly dating to the Cretaceous period. This challenges established geological timelines