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TIL that the Apollo computers were 100% reliable, with 2,504 hours of flight time and only 73KB of memory.

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e0LlE TIL: The White throated Rail, went extinct due to invasive predator introduction, then later re-evolved from a different related species.
mxDax TIL that in 2017 "Killer Mike" (of Run The Jewels fame) was awarded a day in his honor on July 17th in Atlanta. Additionally fellow Atlanta rapper "Big Boi" suggested he run for Mayor of the city
E174d TIL the word "hundred" hasn't always referred to exactly 100 it was sometimes 120. 120 can now be called a "Long Hundred"
X0Dn6 TIL: 1 PB (petabyte) of data, if written on DVDs, would create roughly 223,100 DVDs, i.e., a stack about 878 feet tall, or a stack of CDs a mile high.
BKQK TIL the type of speech used by Kim Kardashian and other young women, dragging on the end of words is actually called “Vocal Fry”, and is considered a speech disorder amongst speech pathologists