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TIL the word ‘nice’ used to mean 'stupid’.

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V1lG TIL that the fastest supercomputer in 1976 ran at 80MHz and cost $80 million. Compare that to the cheapest (via http://bit.ly/14FE8Qf
OGAAL TIL thay Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism are part of the same religion family: the Dharmic or indian religions.
Z8pB4 TIL all the 360 kilogrammes of lunar soil samples brought back from the Apollo missions have now rusted after corroding their vacuum bottle seals and being exposed to water and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
89EP TIL that the distance between a man’s anus and genitalia can be used as an indicator of fertility.
XEGeE TIL that Senator Jake Garn, who flew in the Space Shuttle in 1985, experienced the worst case of space sickness on record. Because of this, NASA jokingly uses a "Garn Scale" to measure reactions to space sickness, where "1.0 Garn" is the worst.