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TIL that the Parliament of Rwanda is the only governing body in the world where women outnumber men

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PR8w TIL that the towers shown during the Playstation 2’s startup represented games played, one for every game. Tower height was the game’s playtime.
woEP TIL a good amount of Bermuda and the Caribbean islands’ land is “African dust”: soil particles that have flown clear across the Atlantic Ocean in dust storms
dO9Q TIL that the name ‘Jessica’ was created by Shakespeare in 1596
D1ZdJ TIL that the title of the Radiohead album "OK Computer" comes from a line in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "OK, computer, I want full manual control now." The song "Paranoid Android" refers to "Hitchhiker" character Marvin, the Paranoid Android.
LVXP TIL that kid computers in the 80’s to mid 90’s came with BASIC computer program training, because people worried that every citizen needed to know computer programming or they would be left out of the computer revolution.