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TIL That up to 62% of Icelanders believe in Elves

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x6P6k TIL about Tangier Island, a community of ~500 off the coast of Virginia that live on a sinking island and speak a unique form of Old English
VMODZ TIL there are now TPU microprocessors. CPUs are ones and zeroes, GPUs are threes for doing triangles to make polygons and TPUs are fours for processing matrices for AI deep learning ten times faster.
156r TIL there is a patent troll company that claims ownership on WIFI sharing. It has being suing small businesses and hotels for a couple of years.
wDW TIL Netflix has been around since 1997
4ExX TIL one million golden orb-weaver spiders lent their silk to create a shimmering, golden textile. Each spider had to be caught and “milked” by hand.