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TIL the transistor was patented 21 years before a working one was actually created.

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B7r TIL Ugland House in the Cayman Islands has over 18,000 companies registered in the five story building, yet the law firm that owns it (Maples and Calder) claims it’s not for tax evasion purposes.
ojXY TIL When we lose fat from our bodies, 84% of that fat is exhaled as carbon dioxide through the lungs. The remaining 16% becomes water, which may be excreted in urine, feces, sweat, breath, tears and other bodily fluids.
dYj9 TIL that “Hikikomori” is a current phenomenon where young Japanese men are withdrawing from society and courtship, prompting “some Japanese girls to initiate the courtship”.
jNRZp TIL that AOL is still selling dial-up Internet services to around 2.1 million people every year. Welcome!
OooN1 Physics has the answer.