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TIL the US Navy replaced expensive and clunky periscope controls on submarines with Xbox 360 controllers, which reduced training time from hours to minutes

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wLLX8 TIL that the time difference between the release date of GTA: San Andreas (2004) and now is longer than the time difference between the release date and the time the plot was set in (1992)
5VlWQ TIl the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer was built in Germany during world war 2 by Konrad zuse but received no press coverage because of the war
pKbO TIL that Slovenia, Slovakia, and the Croatian province of Slavonia have diplomats meet every month to exchange mail sent to the wrong country.
ANL1g TIL that the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in 1989 at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
EgE5o TIL that the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora wiped out an entire civilization: it killed all of the inhabitants of the island of Sumbawa, resulting in the extinction of their culture and language. The remains of their town, which had about 10,000 residents, were rediscovered nearly 2 centuries later.