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TIL that in 1993 IBM Released a mobile phone with Touch screen and E-mail

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E1bpW TIL about Project Retro, an idea proposed by the US Air Force around the 1960's that called for a thousand rocket engines to be strapped to the equator of Earth which would allow the US to slow/stop the rotation of the planet in an effort to "dodge" Soviet ICBMs.
KyNQ TIL when John F. Kennedy met Joseph Luns, the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy asked for his hobbies and he answered: “I fok horses”, Kennedy, struck with surprise responded: “Pardon?”, Luns replied: “Yes, paarden!”. ‘Fokken’ means 'to breed’, and 'horses’ means 'paarden’ in Dutch
R7Wjl TIL the memory capacity of a human brain is one petabyte (1,000 terabytes).
rOwd TIL that the Flinstones was originally sponsored by Winston cigarettes, and was intended for adults.
evek TIL a study involving college students in the United States and Germany found that people who show hostility toward gay people are more likely to have same-sex desires.