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TIL that the myth that Spinach is good for low Iron (it actually prevents the body from absorbing it) was caused by a decimal point error in the 1930s that declared it had 10x the Iron concentration of other vegetables (it's average at best)

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Dr4P TIL the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968
JaBv TIL If you put a big plastic sheet or a white sheet on your grass in the garden on a nice day, leave it for a few hours and then run a magnet over it, you can often find specks just fallen down from outer space
pYv6Q TIL that the crew of the USS Triton were not told what the goal of Operation Sandblast was (a submerged circumnavigation of the world) until the submarine had already left port and was underway
X0myR TIL when Queen Margrethe II of Denmark abdicates on Jan 14, it will be the first time Europe hasn't had a Queen Regnant since 1833
novW TIL a 1984 contestant on the game show “Press My Luck” used his stop-motion VCR to memorize the patterns used on the game board. He won $110,237 in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show.