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TIL the Catholic Church considers superstition to be a sin.

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WkJnB TIL because electronic computers were not fast in 1959, the X15 experimental jet used a Fluidic Digital Computer that used water instead of electricity. It featured hypersensitive Fluidic Integrated Circuits and Logic Gates that could make course corrections faster than its contemporary computers.
nNmY TIL That “Sushi” is not actually Japanese. It originated in South East Asia, and caught on in China, then finally in Japan.
jN16R TIL there is reportedly $2 million worth of treasure hidden in the Rocky Mountains. The man who claims he stashed it there says he did it to cheer people up after the Great Recession. Critics say he’s making it all up just to sell copies of his memoirs
dDwlj TIL that in Toy-story, the characters name is actually “Buzz light year not Buzz light gear”
D0DY TIL there is a type of video photography that makes real life look like highly detailed miniatures. It’s called Tilt-Shift Photography, and it looks uncanny.