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TIL In 2010, Apple soldered RAM in some laptops which prevented upgrades. In 2015, they soldered the SSD in some laptops, also preventing upgrades.

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5Ym1n TIL That the Czech language was saved from extinction by puppet shows. In the 17th century, the Catholic Ferdinand II forced the Protestant Czech people to speak in German and banned the Czech language. Puppets were the only remaining entities that had the right to speak Czech in public places.
69RWQ TIL that no Danish monarch has been coronated since 1849
DmWg TIL in 1941 the world’s largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city forcing mass starvation, Vavilov’s scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
DQK1Y TIL the U.S. National Park Service provides a record of Lost People on their site
78rdM TIL Public DNA records can be used to find distant relatives of criminals, from which investigators can build a family tree and catch said criminals