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TIL There is a place in Minnesota where you can drive a tank and smash cars with it.

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yVnJX TIL that in 1956, IBM released it's first "hard drive" called RAMAC—short for Random Access Method of Accounting And Control—which held less than 5 megabytes of storage and occupied an entire room. RAMAC was leased for $3,200 a month, the equivalent of $28,000 in 2016.
GDL4 TIL John F. Kennedy took meth to manage pain from war injuries and “to keep his youthful image”
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