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TIL that while the first computer built, the Z3, had only 176 bytes of memory: the first computer designed - over 100 years earlier - had 16.6kB of memory.

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BrAeW TIL of the Northern Fusiliers - a professional hockey team made up of soldiers from the Toronto 228th Battalion. Among the highest scoring and most popular teams in the league, they withdrew in the first few months of the season after they were deployed to Europe during WWI
kPW1 TIL that Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz were both retired from The Simpsons after their voice actor, Phil Hartman, was murdered. Philip J. Fry was named in his honour and, before his death, the character Zapp Branigan had been written specifically for him.
J11g8 TIL that during the filming of My Left Foot (1989), Oscar winning actor, Daniel Day-Lewis remained in character for the whole production. He stayed in the wheel chair for the duration of the shot and the film crew had to lift him over obstacles. They had to feed him too.
JYkB8 TIL about ongoing Greek TV show "Light in The Tunnel" which among solving countless muder and missing cases in Greece, was added twice on the Guinness W.R.; once for finding 85 missing persons in the span of 75 episodes and again for finding a woman missing for 58 years, in just 10 minutes
WkQPo TIL Six Flags is named for the six flags of sovereignty that have flown over Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America.