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TIL Many PCs in the 80's and 90's had a "Turbo" button which actually made it run slower

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j6ZNX TIL about Bashir Ahmad, an impoverished Pakistani camel cart driver, who, on 20 May 1961, met with the then US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson, and accepted an invitation to come to America.
5YaJP TIL about Americathon, a !979 movie that perdicted that in 20 years, The Soviet Union would collapse, China would become a superpower, and Nike, then a small shoe company in Oregon, would become a huge multinational corporation.
R7WYa TIL Alex Trebek has been hosting Jeopardy! longer than I have been alive (I’m 35 years old)
m1pEE TIL the Oktoberfest has had a mobile CT scanner at it's medical center since 2022 to distinguish between patients having TBIs and just being drunk
X0kyQ TIL about “One Night Cough Syrup” was sold in the late 1800s, and it contained alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine. This mixture was available over the counter and promised to eliminate your cough in one night so you could sleep.