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TIL that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, surpassing Saudi Arabia

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LkJmQ TIL that Solitaire and Minesweeper were included with Windows to teach users how to use a mouse, not for entertainment
16ZD7 TIL scientists created a sort of telepathy using computers
n1Zd TIL that Harbor Freight toss things you return into the dumpster
4Ly6 TIL A South African IT company preferred to use a pigeon to transport a 4GB flash drive over 80 km (50 mi) instead of using the country’s biggest ISP’s ADSL. Including downloading, it took two hours for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to tranfer 4% of the data over the ADSL.
5YKoR TIL that Greenland Has a Grand Canyon Beneath Its Ice, Carved by Ancient Floods, where Ancient topography lurks beneath the white expanse.