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TIL Americans over the age of 60 are entitled to one kilogram of free cheese every month

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yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program
XENvQ TIL that the same person won the Republican and Democratic primaries for California governor in 1946
WkKRL TIL that in 1996, the mayors of Athens and Sparta signed a symbolic peace treaty, officially ending hostilities and formally bringing the Peloponnesian War to a close 2,400 years later.
R7wn7 TIL about Harry Wesley Coover Jr who discovered super glue (cyanoacrylate) in 1942. He ignored it as being too sticky for what he needed. He then rediscovered it in 1956 while at Eastman Kodak who put it into production. It gained notoriety in the Vietnam War as a way to close battlefield wounds.
P5DJ TIL NASA contemplated sending giant beach ball-like rovers to Mars that would be propelled by wind