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TIL the world's first microprocessor was built in 1968 for the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet (featured in the cinema classic "Top Gun"), and was kept classified until 1998

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g1X4 TIL Viggo Mortensen’s tattoos in Eastern Promises were so realistic that diners in a Russian restaurant in London fell silent out of fear during production.
QDak TIL Brazil in 1988 had an inflation rate rise from 100% to 430% in two weeks.
6EPDw TIL Charles Darwin brought back a 5 year old tortoise named Harriet from Galapogas island that would later be owned by Steve Irwin. Harriet died in 2006 aged 176.
8ep8V TIL that “Imgur” is actually pronounced “im-ij-er” and not “im-gurr”
OwGa TIL The keys to the holiest site in Christianity are kept by a Muslim family that opens the church every morning. Meant to keep the peace between the denominations this arrangement has been in place since 1187 ce.