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TIL I learned about the precursor to the BASIC programming language: the Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment ... it's DOPE

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PYRPg TIL that Muammar Gaddafi had a burning hatred of Switzerland. Following the brief detention of his family in Geneva, Gadaffi declared a jihad against the country and used all of his speaking time at the 2008 G8 Summit to propose the country's abolition.
4Dg TIL Some Tibetan Monks can increase their body temperature so drastically through meditation, that they can cause wet sheets placed on their body to steam in rooms as low as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, where most people would go into uncrontrollable shivering and perhaps die
wLd5E TIL James Earl Jones demanded David Prowse receive sole credit for portraying Darth Vader believing that his voice was 'just special effects'
xVbpw TIL the Sony Walkman launched on July 1, 1979 for $150 & to this date has sold 400 million units with 200 million being cassette players
9Yy1p TIL: Cartoonist, Mike Diana, whose comics often dealt with sexuality, violence and religion, was the first person in the United States to receive a criminal conviction for "Artistic Obscenity". The court also ruled that Diana was to submit to warrant-less searches, by police and the Salvation Army.