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TIL There was a time when AMD and Intel CPUs used the same socket, and could run on the same motherboard.

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pAMN TIL of HTTP 451 - a computer network code similar to 404 page not found - which tells a user if the content is legally blocked. It was named after the book Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned.
kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust
KYVWG TIL that Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the stars of Romeo and Juliet (1968), sued Paramount, alleging they were misled into performing nude scenes. They were 15 and 16 at the time.
YRyW TIL German General and World War I hero Paul Von Lettow Vorbeck told Hitler to go fuck himself when he offered him an ambassadorship.
Lm89 TIL in the Japanese localization of “Inside Out,” Pixar replaced the scenes involving broccoli with bell peppers, because Japanese kids don’t think broccoli is gross.