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TIL There is an esoteric programming language called LOLCODE, in which code is expressed in the style of lolcat speech, implementing lines of code like “HAI,” “CAN HAS [LIBRARY]?” and “KTHXBAI.”

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gMYm9 TIL in all history people have only taken ~200k tons of gold out of the earth. To compare, when Edmund Fitzgerald went down with 26k tons of iron, it was one of dozens such freighters that's moves that much iron every single day the Great Lakes shipping lanes are open, a fraction of daily worldwide
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69lmY TIL that Lauren Shephard Churchly, the daughter of Alan Shephard (first America in space) also went up in space.
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