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TIL about the Antikythera Mechanism, a Greek model of the Solar System which is the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.

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Egdm7 TIL after Persian Emperor Khosrau I sacked Antioch in 540 he founded the city of Weh Antiok Khusrau, which translates to "better than Antioch, Khosrau built this."
l7GkG TIl In 1988, Rob Lowe filmed himself having sex with a 16yo and it almost ruined his career
9Yx1G TIL that Richard Feynman created an assembly line of female mathematicians to simulate a computer during the Manhattan Project because the actual computers from IBM were delayed in arriving to Los Alamos. Turns out their "system" could calculate just as fast (just not round-the-clock).
QGG6 TIL Andy Warhol, mentor and manager of The Velvet Underground, wanted their debut album to have a built-in crack, so that the line “I’ll be your mirror”, from the song of the same name, would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listeners moved the needle themselves
vOD8 TIL George Washington has over $300,000 in overdue library fines.