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TIL of the Mother of All demos given by Doug Engelbart. The demo talked about all the possibilities of modern computing. A year later the first link on what would be the internet connected UCLA and Stanford.

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e6LJ TIL Sony sold more than 12 million 3.5 inch floppy disks… in 2009
5bLk TIL that writer Walt Whitman volunteered during the American Civil War by writing countless letters on behalf of soldiers, some of whom were illiterate or were dying, back home to their loved ones
b6Bra TIL of St Clair’s defeat in 1791, when Native Americans supplied with British made firearms, demolished a US military force and killed 656 soldiers, in what has been regarded as one of the worst ever defeats of the US military.
yQVVa TIL that King Fahd International Airport is larger than 24 countries including Singapore!!
7gbZ TIL that there is no economic gain to be made from deforesting the Amazon to grow crops, as more deforestation leads to less rainfall which leads to lower crop yield.