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TIL: Astronauts who come back from the moon have to go through customs

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DADp TIL that 10% of all the humans who have ever lived are alive in the world right now.
4XgVR TIL that Mr. Rogers responded to every fan letter he received. He would wake up 5 every morning, pray, and begin answering letters as part of his daily routine. Many children wrote to him about their personal issues, such as family members dying. He received between 50 and 100 letters every day.
JZb1 TIL that England still has a High Court of Chivalry. It last sat in 1954 after a 200 year break and its first ruling was to decide whether it still existed.
9YLrD TIL the Atari 2600 (1977) only had 128 bytes of RAM (0.000128 MB), a 1.19 MHz CPU, and only supported games up to 4 kilobytes. To get games larger than 4 KB, the ROM had to be split into 4 KB "pages" that the program could flip between like pages in a book, allowing the console to access more data.
Oom1a TIL, Shaggy's 'It Wasn't Me' was rescued from obscurity by a DJ in Honolulu who downloaded it from Napster since MCA execs were ignoring his requests for a copy