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TIL Nuclear Bombs Made It Possible to Carbon Date Human Tissue

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4b1a TIL the Guinness World Record for longest note ever recorded on a saxophone, at 45 minutes and 47 seconds, is held by…Kenny G.
GYaYj TIL that there are more historic artefacts under the sea than in all of the world’s museums.
5Yo1B TIL in 1997 the IBM supercomputer “Big Blue” was able to beat Garry Kasparov, the world champion of chess, at his own game in a best two out of three match. This marked the first time in history that artificial intelligence was actually catching up to humans.
nPyb TIL One of the first items sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. When eBay creator, Pierre Omidyar, emailed the person who bought the broken laser pointer for $14.83 ($22.40 today) to make sure he knew it was broken, the man told him “I’m a collector of broken laser pointers.”
0dZQN TIL: The New Testament in the Bible was originally written in Greek