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TIL that Greek combines letters to form letters that don't exist in the Greek alphabet

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m1rmv TIL: Last year, scientists discovered a new extinct species of "ridiculously cute" tiny penguins in New Zealand. They weigh 2 pounds, stand 13.5 inches tall, and had narrower skulls. They named the species Eudyptula wilsonae or Wilson's little penguin.
ZpaKp TIL of Cole Carini, a 23yo incel from Virginia, who blew his hands off making a homemade bomb to kill 'hot cheerleaders'
awWao TIL some chips have trillions of transistors, or IBM's supercomputer, for example, has over 73 trillion transistors. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/12/07/the-first-computer-chip-with-a-trillion-transistors
8DPG TIL that Rob McElhenney of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia gained 60 lbs for season 7 because he “thought it would be funny”
Br5Jy TIL what happened to those tiny coffee spoons they used to have at McDonald’s in the 70’s. McDonald’s got rid of them because people were using them to sniff cocaine.