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TIL that physicists reversed time using a quantum computer

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GY445 TIL the technical term for wood and metallic powder, shavings, filings and other byproducts from machining or working such material is called "Swarf". This is comprised of everything from metal shavings after a cut, to sawdust from cutting, to metallic powder from sharpening.
9PN6 TIL that space travel gives astronauts a feeling of being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness
6EAB8 TIL that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke a creole language associated with the descendants of slaves called Gullah as his first-language and that his relative silence on the Court is due in part to self-consciousness from being teased about the way he spoke as a child in rural Georgia.
KePB TIL that the Big Brain on Futurama was played by Maurice LaMarche, the voice of Brain on Pinky and the Brain
mxpAM TIL: the Iranian word for ostrich is "shotor morgh" which translates to "camel chicken"