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## Did You Know
- That [old](old.md) technology (such as toys or alerts in cars) could play prerecorded audio without using any electricity or needing batteries? This was done by [simply](kiss.md) using a plastic disc spinning on a needle (same principle as a vinyl record).
- That [old](old.md) technology (such as toys or alerts in cars) could play prerecorded audio without using any electricity or needing batteries? This was done by [simply](kiss.md) using a plastic disc spinning on a needle (same principle as a vinyl record). There is a gramophone, called CardTalk, made purely of cardboard which plays vinyl records without any electricity (it used to be used by missionaries traveling to jungles etc.).
- That the term "retarded" was actually made as a [politically correct](political_correctness.md) replacement for medical terms such as "idiot", "imbecile" and "moron" which became seen as derogatory.
- That all [Intel](intel.md) [processors](cpu.md) since 2008 (and [AMD](amd.md) processors since 2013) have a hardware [backdoor](backdoor.md) ([Intel ME](intel_me.md), [AMD PSP](amd_psp.md)) that run the [Minix](minix.md) operating system and allows spying on users of those processors no matter what operating system they run?
- That Wilhelm Rontgen, a Nobel laureate, did not [patent](patent.md) his groundbreaking discoveries, stating that they should be freely available to anyone without any charge?
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- That a complement of a [formal language](formal_language.md) can be computationally simpler than the original -- for example that a [pushdown automaton](pushdown_automaton.md) cannot tell which strings are of form a^(n)b^(n)c^(n), but it can tell exactly which ones are not?
- That [LGBT](lgbt.md), [feminism](feminism.md) and similar movements are not truly leftist but rather [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) and therefore [fascist](fascism.md)?
- That there is no simple formula for calculating the perimeter of an [ellipse](ellipse.md)?
- That there is a limit on how fast any [computable](computability.md) function can grow? There exist uncomputable functions growing so fast that they will eventually outgrow any function that any computer will ever be able to compute. Most famous such function is the [busy beaver](busy_beaver.md).
- In 3rd world [pigeons carrying SD cards](ip_over_pigeon.md) are still much faster and reliable way of transferring data than [internet service providers](isp.md)? This also avoids [censorship](censorship.md).
- That [compiler bomb](compiler_bomb.md) is a very short source code that makes the language compiler produce gigantic executable?
- That there is a light bulb in California that has been turned on since 1901 and as of writing this is still working? This shows that [old](old.md) things are better than those manufactured under more advanced [capitalism](capitalism.md) which pushes for more [consumerism](consumerism.md) and applies [artificial obsolescence](artificial_obscolescence.md). Many sowing machines made mode than 100 years ago still function perfectly fine as well as many other types of machines; anything created nowadays shouldn't be expected to last longer than 3 years.