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TIL Fujitsu’s FACOM 128B(manufactured 1959), a computer that is the world’s oldest still in use.

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L1n9 TIL that a Nat Geo photographer was “adopted” by a leopard seal in Antarctica that tried to teach him how hunt penguins. When he didn’t catch on, she tried to feed him.
R54yj TIL in 2019, "Pray for Nesamani" trended in social media after news of contractor Nesamani being admitted to the ICU due to a concussion caused by a hammer that fell on his head. It turns out to be that Nesamani is actually a fictional character played by actor Vadivelu in Tamil film called Friends.
APXx TIL there was a ban on sliced bread in the US in 1943.
9EgB TIL that by 2004 humanity produced more transistors than it did grains of rice, and by 2010 you could buy 125,000 transistors for the price of a grain of rice. A 16GB drive contains more transistors than the number of neurons in your brain.
DJNJ TIL Hayden Christensen successfully sued USA Network for stealing the idea for “Royal Pains”. Christensen pitched a similar show called “Housecalls”, and “was never informed that a similar program was in development”