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TIL that the QWERTY keyboard is deliberately a very inefficient way of typing

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nWPaG TIL that, using money earned from a 1961 biography of his brother Ernest, Leicester Hemingway created a micronation called New Atlantis on a 240 square foot raft off the coast of Jamaica, where he lived with his wife and young children. It lasted five years before it was destroyed in a storm.
awXv0 TIL the radiation levels in the US Capital Building are 55 times higher than the permissible levels of radiation exposure allowed by the EPA at the outer-most perimeters of nuclear power plants. Essentially, if the Capitol building were a nuclear facility, it would fail a safety examination.
pBlA TIL Minecraft is the 10th best selling PC game of all time.
gMK5A TIL that the real "Last Samuraï" who inspired the movie with Tom Cruise wasn't American, but rather a French officer named Jules Brunet
5Y8br TIL when Led Zeppelin briefly visited India in 1972, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were largely ignored because the locals thought that they were hippies until they played at a local venue.