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TIL it takes two full weeks to make a CPU.

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R7k4j TIL the Folsom Prison Blues line "But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" was what Johnny Cash imagined as "the worst reason a person could have for killing another person".
m1rDv TIL an analysis of the lyrics of more than 12,000 English-language songs released between 1980-2020 (from the genres of rap, country, pop, R&B & rock) found that lyrics have become simpler, angrier, more repetitive & more self-obsessed over that period of time.
XEdEP TIL: There was a book about a famous train leaving King’s Cross Station on a magical adventure, written in 1937 by Doris Crockford (the same name as a witch Harry Potter meets in the first book)
0wQJA TIL the melody used by the Boney M hit "Rasputin" actually comes from a Turkish folk song called "Katibim."
Vko8 TIL that the dangerously explosive cars in the Fallout games are based on the Ford Nucleon, a nuclear powered concept car from the 50s.