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TIL brainfuck is an esoteric programming language whose compiler uses only 240 bytes of memory making it around 11,000 times smaller than the C++ compiler.

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XE7L6 TIL of the Baker Electric, an early 20th century electric car that was marketed for women and whose interior was appointed like a parlor or sitting room.
QkYe TIL Singer/Songwriter Neil Young accidentally gave a group of children a case of poison oak at his annual birthday celebration by having the children roast marshmallows on the poisonous tree’s branches (which he had gathered himself).
Y7DPW TIL in 1957, the US tested an atomic bomb in the Nevada desert that produced a mushroom cloud visible from Las Vegas, 65 miles away.
neN0B TIL because he felt his students couldn't properly understand how the Nazis came to power, a teacher roleplayed as an authoritarian. He managed to start a proto-fascist movement that swept across the school— the students even took it upon themselves to rat out those who were disloyal
b6M09 TIL that the Universe's average colour is called 'Cosmic latte'. In a 2002 study, astronomers found that the light coming from galaxies averaged into a beige colour that’s close to white.