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TIL Sylvester Stallone directed the Bee Gee’s “Staying Alive” music video in 1977

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Lkv9p TIL of TempleOS. An operating system written entirely by schizophrenic programmer Terry Davis, who believed his code was a third temple that could talk to God. The innovative os has been noted for its speed, one engineer noting Davis would have been another Wozniak or Jobs were he not mentally ill.
0d8MA TIL In 1833, Britain used 40% of its national budget to pass the Slavery Abolition Act. The British government borrowed £20 million to compensate slave owners, but nothing was paid to the enslaved people themselves. The loan was one of the largest in history and wasn't paid off until 2015.
rRY74 TIL that Compton has its own cricket club and the team is the only all American-born exhibition cricket team.
lb8N TIL that we sent people to the moon before we put wheels on suitcases
E1A7o TIL that Charles Darwin's children left doodles all over the original "On the Origin of Species" manuscript.