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TIL Ibn Al-Haytham, a Muslim physicist and scientist that lived during the Golden Age of Islam, is credited with the creation of the scientific method that has became the basis of Western science today.

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8arXP TIL that there are more IPv6 addresses than there are atoms on the surface of the Earth.
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