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TIL: Web 3.0 was originally meant to be a semantic web, making the internet machine readable.

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5dJn TIL scientists created a computer memory crystal that can store 360 TB of data/disc and last approx. a million years by using pure silica and storing the data in 5 dimensions
R6pl TIL Roger Taylor was so fond of his song “I’m in Love with My Car” that he urged Freddie Mercury to allow it to be the B-side to “Bohemian Rhapsody”, to the point where he locked himself in a cupboard until Mercury agreed. The song ended up generating equal royalties just because it was the B-side.
5wxp TIL A California dentist, Dr. Mark Anderson, was accused in 2007 of fondling the breasts of twenty-seven patients. Although he claimed that these “chest massages” were an effective treatment for TMJ, Anderson was later convicted of eleven counts of felony sexual battery.
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