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TIL that they did not actually have the right to use the music in the background of the infamous “you wouldn’t steal a car” anti piracy warning

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X0eoX TIL that in 1989, scientists at IBM succeeded in arranging 35 individual xenon atoms on a substrate of chilled crystal of nickel to spell out the initials "IBM". It was the first time atoms had been precisely positioned on a flat surface.
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