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TIL that there is an O/S written entirely in assembly. It’s called KolibriOS. It’s ISO takes up 4.95 MB and boots up completely in less than 3 seconds

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gM0Nb TIL of the Talking Statues of Rome, where critiques & satires of authority figures were posted when they couldn't be published openly
e0jZg TIL that Plato was a wrestler. The historian Diogenes Laërtius tells us that Platon, meaning "broad shouldered," was the philosopher’s wrestling nickname.
v1eVB TIL of the murder of Henryk Siwiak, on September 11, 2001. Shot and killed in Brooklyn, his murder is the only one recorded in NYC that day apart from the 9/11 attacks, and his death remains unsolved.
jNaea TIL 11,000 year old footprints of giant sloths have been found preserved in gypsum in New Mexico. Some also have human footprints within them, which effectively records all the action of a sloth hunt
lonrK TIL a farmer hid the construction and existence of a 4-bedroom castle under a huge pile of hay bales for 6 years. When he thought he’d outlasted the statute of limitations, he unveiled it to the public, the city council found out, and immediately ordered its destruction.