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TIL Solitary confinement causes prisioners to have difficulty separating reality from their own thoughts, which may lead to confused thought processes, perceptual distortions, paranoia and psychosis. Physical effects include lethargy, insomnia, palpitations and anorexia

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9wV9m TIL monster EXTREME UV lithography machines make AI chips with a laser burning hotter than the sun spitting out molten drops of tin to create plasma that emits tiny UV waves which then hits a bunch of vacuum mirrors for focus before landing on a photomask for printing on silicon 🤯
R7w6a TIL oh Herman Bing, an American-German character actor who played the Ringmaster in the original Dumbo. Bing's career stagnated due to World War II where anything related to Germany, such as the thick-accented Bing, was frowned upon, resulting in his suicide in 1947.
l7KZ1 TIL No one person has done more to get art into American homes than actor Vincent Price. Between 1962 and 1971, the “The Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art" put over 50K pieces in people's homes. Sears customers could purchase items on an installment plan for as little as $5 down and $5 a month.
d8x58 TIL Ghana and Ivory Coast produce at least 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans. And the world is running out of cocoa farmers as the next generation refuses to take up this job because of the difficulty of the process and wages as low as 84 cents a day.
m1PaP TIL Latin and Irish have no words for "yes" or "no"