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TIL: Singapore is represented as a triangle in PolandBall comics and there is a paper examining why published in April 2023

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PWEE TIL of The Hole which is a place of confinement where Scientology executives are held against their will.
9wOQX TIL Apple's mobile chips (bionic, A series) are surprisingly not yet on ARMv9 instruction set (ratified in 2021)
ANrra TIL that Kelly McGillis and Jodie Foster were dating (one of Kelly's relationships)
1awW4 TIL that in 1982, a man died while vandalizing a saguaro cactus for fun. He shot the cactus repetitively and then went up to poke it to try to get it to fall over. Instead, the 500-pound saguaro arm fell and killed him.
m1GMP TIL what you would see if an object moved past you at twice the speed of light. Since the object is moving faster than the photons you need to see it, the object would suddenly appear at your location, then seem to split into two and move away from you in both directions.