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TIL The first computers in the White House were installed by Jimmy Carter's administration. In 1978, the West Wing was equipped with a Hewlett Packard 3000. By the end of Carter's term, the White House had purchased its first laser printer

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5evP TIL when a North Korean merchant vessel was attacked by pirates, U.S. Navy ships patrolling the area freed their ships, resulting in an exceedingly rare pro-U.S. statement from the North Korean press.
7Deb TIL Rowan Atkinson, the actor who portrays Mr. Bean, has a masters in Electrical Engineering.
RZb9 TIL that motion sickness is a psychological defense mechanism against neurotoxins. Your brain realizes there is a disconnect between what your eyes see and what your inner ear feels and concludes you are poisoned and hallucinating so it induces nausea and vomiting
KOQyw TIL the U.S. put Italian-Americans in an internment camp in Montana during WWII as a result of Executive Order 9066
nelwB TIL that Texas scrapped the last meal tradition for condemned inmates after one of James Byrd Jr's killers died without having touched his enormous request