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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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BBmd TIL Wyatt Earp may have descended fom Americas first serial killers, the Harpe Brothers. Who murdered up to 40 people and even bashed an infant against a tree for crying. One was beheaded, his head left on a spike. That area is still known in Kentucky as “Harpe’s Head’
m1WaY TIL the longest last name in the world was that of a German man whose last name was 40 letters long!
d8MPK TIL during James K. Polk's presidential campaign, he pledged to leave office after one term. He got elected, left after one term, and then died 3 months later.
ZpKnR TIL - LG stands for Lucky Goldstar
ne9RB TIL the earliest known sources of uranium were in Naples, Italy & Jáchymov, Czech Republic. Uranium is 40 times more abundant in the Earth's crust than silver. 1 KG of uranium-235 can produce as much energy as 1.5 million KG of coal.