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TIL scientists in 2013 took actually pictures of molecules before and after a chemical reaction.

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7rOmp TIL the increased speed in 'Space Invaders' was due to hardware limitations and not an initial design decision
wLkME TIL that a British army Officer Henry Tandey, took pity on a wounded German soilder and did not shoot him down while the latter was fleeing the battle field in WWI. This gesture of kindness had the worst butterfly effect in history, as the wounded soilder was Adolf Hitler.
6EDal TIL the Rosetta Stone was not meant as a way to translate hieroglyphics, it was a government document containing three languages (Hieroglyphics, Greek and Demotic) so that all the people of Egypt at the time could read it
awoEZ Today I learned that Stanford did a study on how memes and other internet ideas spread.
VB5GZ TIL that the first computer virus, known as "Creeper," was an experimental program created in 1971. It displayed the message "I’m the creeper: Catch me if you can" and inadvertently led to the development of the first antivirus software, called "Reaper."