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TIL IBM delivered computers to Nazi Germany

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9Yg6G TIL Alaska residents receive an annual dividend check funded from investment earnings of statewide mineral royalties.
pL9Q TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb and that electric lights had already existed for more than 70 years before he filed his patent in 1878
Z8Q5p TIL about project Orion, a project to develop a spaceship propelled by nuclear explosions. The project was abandoned due to a treaty that forbid nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water.
E64p TIL that in 1962 the US government planned for the CIA to commit perceived acts of terrorism in U.S. cities. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against the country, which had recently become communist.
PWLe TIL that the average net worth for an African American family is $4,955…less than the average family has in India.