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TIL that Sarah Hyland, of Modern Family fame, was diagnosed with kidney dysplasia when she was young, received two kidney transplants from her father and her brother and has undergone 16 surgeries, even during the shooting of Modern Family

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R7gQQ TIL that the International Space Station ran on a 20MHz Intel 80386SX CPU from 1988 & was upgraded in August with a commercial off-the-shelf computer. The station orbits Earth & sees a sunrise once every 92 minutes. Soon after the upgrade, it will have a computer that can keep up.
Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
Rb76 TIL that Christians were originally called Atheists by the Roman Empire because they didn’t believe in Polytheism.
4XmEo TIL the NASA Saturn V program (rocket for moon landings) cost $34.4B in 2018 dollars over its life. That's compared to the total 2020 NASA budget of $22.6B
1a1b8 TIL that current and former presidents and vice presidents are not allowed to operate motor vehicles on the open road.