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TIL that our current smartphones have a power of calculation far superior from the one the NASA had to send man in space during the 60s

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nvkb TIL in 1934 Philo Farnsworth and RCA went to court to establish whose patent marked the beginning of TV broadcasting. In court, Farnsworth’s high school physics teacher testified that the boy, at 14 years old, first described to him the idea for a scanning tube, better known as a television.
R7ek6 TIL the shape of a lawn mowers blade creates lift which forces the grass to stick up, making it much easier to be cut by the next blade
xVY0B TIL Dogs don't start wagging their tails until they're three to four weeks old.
LQdkv TIL 21 years before “Seinfeld” spoofed attorney Johnnie Cochran with Jackie Chiles, “Sanford & Son” spoofed him with Sonny Cochran.
oNYK TIL there is an ATM in the Vatican that gives instructions in Latin, and is believed to be the only one in the world to do so