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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). 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.). [Phonograph](phonograph.md), invented around 1877, allowed people to easily record and play back sounds on a small cylinder covered with wax, the wax could later be smoothed out and rewritten with a new record.
- 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 the [free software](free_software.md) song has a very uncommon 7/8 rhythm that is not easy to follow?
- That the term "[retarded](retarded.md)" 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?
- That brain size correlates with [intelligence](intelligence.md) and male brains are on average 10% larger than those of [women](woman.md)? Yep, this is still even on [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), though the implications mustn't be mentioned there.