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TIL that in the 40s, computer memory systems used mercury as an acoustic medium. Alan Turing suggested gin as a cheaper alternative.

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eY4D TIL the CIA sponsored exhibitions of Jackson Pollock’s work in order to globally popularize abstract expressionism and devalue socialist realism
MpbA TIL that spanking children makes them MORE likely to be defiant to their spanking parent. It also makes them more likely to have anti social and mental issues.
QNByL TIL Toyota has a production system where the main objectives are to design out overburden(muri), inconsistency(mura), and waste(muda)
16VA4 TIL The Regent International in China is basically a real-life arcology with 20,000 pop and all the amenities within the complex
j64N TIL Salman Rushdie (Author of the Satanic Verses) played Super Mario World to keep his mind off of the fear of assassination.