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TIL A smart phone’s nanotech based accelerometer can tell when it is being dropped and allow the phone to shut down parts of its hardware to protect it. That is why you see a lot of cracked glass on perfectly usable iPhones.

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E1QQ7 TIL of George Engel; an American anarchist who, after being falsely arrested for a bombing, wrote a letter asking the judge not to give any clemency. His last words before being hanged were "Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life".
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