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TIL To prevent English tech vocabulary from entering the French language, French officials suggested 'le mobile multifonction' (mobile multifunction) as an alternative to the English word 'smartphone.'

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45JR TIL radiocarbon dating will no longer work independently on fossils and artifacts post-WW2 due to residual radiation resulting nuclear arms testing. Future archeologists will not be able to date our remains using only carbon dating.
4Xp1N TIL that Nasa is working on a 'clockwork rover' without electronics to explore the surface of Venus
Y70jx TIL Oreo has to call the white center "creme" instead of "cream" because the FDA does not allow manufacturers to use the word "cream" to describe a food that contains no cream at all.
Breb TIL the catholic church is spending money to lobby states to not over turn statute of limitation laws that are protecting priest who raped children .
ANDAB TIL That the value of pi was approximated to be 355/113 in the 5th century. This is the closest approximation of the value of pi that one can obtain without having 4 numbers in the denominator.