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TIL in the 1960s, science fiction author Stanisław Lem came up with several terms for technologies like "phantomatics" for virtual reality, "molectronics" for molecular nanotechnology, "cerebromatics" for cognitive enhancement or "intelectronics" for artificial intelligence.

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XEYOk TIL the word slogan derives from the Irish words sluagh "army" + gairm "cry". Its what the clan or army would chant going into battle.
xxR7 TIL that US presidents do not age faster while in office. The wrinkles and gray hair acquired at fast rates are due to them being on their 40s and 50s at the time of their inauguration
BM4D TIL the longest running science experiment in the world is in Australia, where they have been watching asphalt slowly drip through a funnel since 1927
M7BpW TIL Rapid ejaculator rats are more susceptible to anxiety compared with normal ejaculator rats
aw5XN TIL after his father and brother were killed by Confederate Home Guard, Henry Berry Lowrie led a band of American Indian, White, and African-American men in a guerrilla war against the Confederacy and later the upper class. He obtained a Robbin Hood like status and vanished without a trace in 1872.