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prxA TIL Donald Trump ran a university that was intended to teach investing skills, however, it was all a scam.
E1mjw TIL that in WW2, US used Native Americans for message encryption. They were called "code talkers" as they simply talked in their native language for transmitting the messages. This allowed fast communication over open channels as enemy was unable to break this code. Was crucial in winning the war.
PYk4G TIL that Throughout the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA operated a passenger airline company called Air America, which was responsible for allowing the US military access to places in Southeast Asia the Geneva Convention had banned the military from.
9YLrD TIL the Atari 2600 (1977) only had 128 bytes of RAM (0.000128 MB), a 1.19 MHz CPU, and only supported games up to 4 kilobytes. To get games larger than 4 KB, the ROM had to be split into 4 KB "pages" that the program could flip between like pages in a book, allowing the console to access more data.
VBKB TIL That Google Employees Have Their Own Internal Meme Generator Used To Poke Fun At Google Life.