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TIL that there’s a town in Texas called Earth, and it’s the only place on Earth officially named Earth

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Mxba TIL Scientists made a tractor beam
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0w65p TIL that Adobe has developed a software that can detect Photoshoped images/faces with 99.4% accuracy
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mx6kv TIL Tolkein popularised "dwarves" as the plural of "dwarf" to differentiate his fantasy dwarves from humans with dwarfism, for whom the correct plural was "dwarfs". The dwarf trope became so entrenched that "dwarves" is now widely recognised as the standard plural of "dwarf" even for humans