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TIL Bill Gates can leap over an office chair from a standing position

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VBR9B TIL Springfield wasn’t always the Capital of Illinois. When Illinois was first chartered in 1818, the state made the city of Kaskaskia its capital. It wasn’t until 1839 that the City became the Capital of the State.
QJ5ea TIL the Phillips Berlina is a car made in the 80’s on a C3 Corvette chassis meant to look like a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540k.
E14Kw TIL that during the cold war the United States developed a rifle capable of firing low-yield nuclear warheads over 4 kilometers.
Darj TIL of a new suspect in the ‘Zodiac killer’ case. He was an editor for a counterculture newspaper in San Francisco, his voice has been ID’d by a 911 operator, and his full name appears in one of the ciphers; among several other pieces of circumstantial evidence.
JYXav TIL of the Battle of Hainan Island (Chinese Civil War). The Communists conducted a successful landing operation using 2000 traditional wooden junks. This led the KMT Navy to underestimate them and tried to capture them, only for the junks to reveal artillery pieces, forcing a KMT Destroyer to flee.