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TIL That Intel created a working version of the "Pipe Dream" Machine from Animusic

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wdg8 TIL the GPS is owned by the United States and was originally developed for military usage but made freely-available in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan after Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down
oRjVL TIL that Henry Kissinger was an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters
GXb1 TIL: Urine on a jelly fish sting doesn’t do any good. It’s better to splash the stung area with salt water.
Lkwo0 TIL of Worker Policing. A brutal regulatory system in hives by which female workers will attach their queen and eat her sons if there are too many compared to their own sons, and sometimes will eat their own if the Queen's eggs are too few.
Gm95 Today I Learned that the Vibrator was the 5th domestic appliance to be electrified, after the sewing machine, tea kettle, fan, and toaster.