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TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.

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Z8wM4 TIL about the Falkland Islands. These islands were covered by landmines in 1982 when Argentina invaded because they wanted to control them. Because of this certain areas of the islands became untouched leading to the penguin population to thrive because they aren't heavy enough to set the mines off.
K57E TIL of Britain’s most remote bar. ‘The Old Forge’ pub is located in Inverie, which is so isolated in the Scottish Highlands that no roads connect the village to the rest of the country. Thirsty travelers need to hike 17 miles over very rough terrain, or take a 7-mile ferry ride,
4Xdd6 TIL a study of prayer for cardiac bypass patients found that prayer had no effect on recovery and that patients who knew they were being prayed for actually had more complications
w9RE TIL Henry Ford was an anti Semite who wrote International Jew, and caused some Germans to become anti Semitic after reading this book.
oB4eE TIL a 6,000-foot-long hose was discovered under the streets of Yonkers, NY, believed to transport beer during Prohibition.