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TIL Brazil suffered from Hyperinflation in the 1980s-1990s

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0wLL1 TIL the term "patch", meaning a software update, originates from the days when computer code was written on physical cards with holes punched in them. If there was a change in the code, you would "patch" that section of the card with a piece of tape, covering it, and if necessary, changing it.
Z8wp TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr. considered himself a Trekkie, convinced Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) to stay on the show, and that he told her that “Star Trek” was “the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch.”
Y79XP TIL that racially segregated school proms were still happening in the US as late as 2013
69gp8 TIL Billie Eilish became the first person born in the 21st century to win an Academy Award when she won Best Original Song for the theme to the James Bond film "No Time To Die"
pY07A TIL that "wood grain" has two meanings, the structure of fibres in wood, and the visible pattern they make. So a piece of rough-cut unpolished lumber both has and does not have wood grain.