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TIL the IBM computer Deep Thought was named after the computer in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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J7kB TIL A 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell pitched against the New York Yankees in 1931 and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
9RGM TIL- IKEA has been offering solar-powered portable shelters for 3 years
99r TIL scientists filmed a couple having sex using a MRI
kO4Yd TIL India was controlled by a giant British company, with a private army twice the size of the British army, and not the British government for nearly 100 years (1757–1858) before the British Raj was formed.
Z8OVQ TIL that German cars have an option to turn parking lights on only on one side (towards the road) to make parking safer on narrow European streets in the dark whilst consuming half the power.