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TIL: Between 1940 and 1970 Harvard and Yale took nude photos of incoming freshmen

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0wZgN IBM has created a computer smaller than a grain of salt and it has the computing power of the x86 chip from 1990.
4X8N TIL a man submitted a patent in 1979 that almost perfectly resembles an iPod. He even went as far as predicting a need for DRM and a way to distribute the music.
R5Dj8 TIL According to legend the revolt leader Simon bar Kokhba, once found an attacked man who had his tongue and hands cut off, bar Kokhba asked the man a series of yes/no questions which he could nod to, the assailants were caught as a result. Bar Kokhba has since become a question game in Hungary.
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