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TIL about project Cybersyn, an attempt to implement a socialist economy aided by real-time computer processing and pre-internet telecommunication-based coordination in 1970s Chile

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4WEo TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today’s equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.
4XgdJ TIL in 1988 McDonalds gave out flexi-disc records where group of singers rapped the entire McDonalds menu. If the singers made it to the end without messing up, you had a prize record that won you $1 million.
QJNbM TIL the first Indian Reservation in what would become the US was established in 1758, predating the birth of the United States by nearly 2 decades
mKYM TIL that a female humpback whale, near drowning, was freed by divers from a tangle of crab pots … then thanked them all, one at a time.
JYg58 TIL Nikki Reed moved out of her mother's house and began living on her own at age 14. After success of her movie "Thirteen", Reed returned to high school but dropped out again after a year because of "mothers who were sneaking into the school at lunchtime to confront and harass her about the film"