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TIL that Jodie Foster's brother wrote a tell-all book in 1997 in which he outed their mother and also implied Jodie was gay (she came out decades later in 2013)

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8eBAG TIL that the F-22 Raptor took so long to develop, that the CPUs for its in flight computer had become obsolete by three generations by the time the first production jet flew in 1997, resulting in even further delays as a new flight computer had to be designed based on the PowerPC processor.
e0Kdb TIL the Cryptex, the cylindrical combination vaults that hold secret messages, made famous in The Da Vinci Code, is a neologism completely invented by Dan Brown and has no historical connection to a real device of the sort.
weVW TIL the US post office uses no tax dollars to operate. That’s why mail is running during the Government Shutdown.
vOXD TIL The N64’s venerable Goldeneye contains a fully working (though inaccessible) ZX Spectrum emulator complete with 10 games.
9wA8D TIL Aspirin and Ibuprofen work by Blocking COX Enzymes, preventing pain messengers from being sent to the brain, but Acetaminophen works by Preventing COX Enzyme Production in the first place.