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TIL US Army has a working prototype of a land-based laser cannon that can be guided by an Xbox controller

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VBojm TIL that The National Library of Medicine has a Pillbox dataset made up of 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills.
p8oQO TIL that if you add 250 ml of water with 250ml of ethanol you get less than 500ml of liquid.
OGBQY TIL Each of your 10,000,000,000,000 cells has 1.8 meters of DNA.
4Pjg TIL: That Colonel Sanders got fired from dozens of jobs. Including being a lawyer. He found himself broke at the age of 65, and decided to start KFC.
16oJD TIL Occam's Razor, the principle which advocates for simplicity in explanations and theories (literally and specifically "Plurality must never be posited without necessity") is named after William of Ockham. The spelling variation "Occam" likely arose due to changes in transliteration over time.