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TIL That you can actually improve the grades you make on a test by studying the material in the place you’re about to take the test.

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5YMjR TIL Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell took home a 16 mm camera from the Lunar Module that would have otherwise been destroyed. Mitchell tried to auction the camera to help medical treatments for his son who had cancer before he agreed to relinquish the camera by donating it to the Smithsonian
VQJB TIL, while Samuel Morse was in New York, he received a letter that warned of his wife’s illness. Morse left for home but arrived to find his wife already buried. Heartbroken that for days he was unaware of his wife’s illness and death lead him to research and patent the telegraph 22 years later.
epBNL TIL Current Gen. M.2 NVMe SSDs are about as fast as last gen DDR2 Ram
R7a81 TIL that Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim sounds so similar to Tom that he often does substitute voice-over work for computer games when Tom doesn't have the time.
almy TIL that there are “price trackers” for Amazon that show you where the price has been. This is a great tool for avoiding fake Cyber Monday prices.