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TIL that in 1995, Motorola made a processor called DragonBall EZ

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ZpK8G TIL that only 11 out of 195 recognised countries use Fahrenheit and 8 other countries use Fahrenheit and celcius. The rest of the world relies on celcius alone.
lL17 TIL The Holocaust memorial in Berlin in coated with a special anti-graffiti chemical. The company that produced this chemical was the same company that produced Zyklon B during the war.
5oaR TIL that Bobby Sands, a member of the Provisional IRA, was elected to British Parliament while in prison. He was never seated and died after 66 days of hunger-striking.
RBQa TIL the British successfully destroyed a Nazi drydock by ramming a ship filled with six tons of explosives into it, leaving the ship wedged in the gates until the timers detonated the explosives.
wLmDP TIL on Nov. 26, 1977 a television station in southern England had their broadcast hijacked by an entity referring to itself as Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command who disrupted regular programming to give a six-minute message about humanity's future. The mystery has never been solved.