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TIL of the Tandy Model 100, the first commercially successful portable computer. It could type in 11 pages worth of unformatted text and nothing more. It was mainly used by journalists and people programming industrial/lab control systems due to its portability.

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69WVw TIL Cremated remains can be compressed into diamonds. They’ve created up to 9 diamonds from a single person’s remains.
b9GV0 TIL A doll used in a movie brought more than $200,000 at auction
9wWZp TIL that there is a very expensive Nuclear Power Plant under construction in England that is 33% owned by China.
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WWl9 TIL in 1777 Morocco was the first nation to recognize the independence of the United States of America