Post * EVZ0 — Curious Curator

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TIL : The New York Times wrote an article about every single September the 11th Victim

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gMm0b TIL The US Military still uses 8 inch floppy disks on outdated IBM computers to run the nuclear missile systems. It's because they are incredibly hard to hack. The computers are essentially air-gapped and the old IBM computers are reliable. They could run for another 40 years with spare parts.

R59ZQ TIL that when U.S. Counties are ranked by per capita income, of the worst 5 percent of the counties, one - third are named for Confederate Leaders.

N7oDM TIL the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, Gerald Charles Dickens, is an actor who has written and performed one-man shows of Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol.

yVyA8 TIL that a uranium mill operated from 1950-1984 in Moab Utah, leaving a large pile of contaminated waste on the banks of the Colorado River, endangering human, animal, and plant life all the way to Mexico. Clean-up is underway and will cost taxpayers as much as 1 billion dollars.

v1rm4 TIL that in 1993, a South Korean professor successfully built and tested a self-driving car, which travelled more than 300km from Seoul to Busan. His car was eventually scrapped.