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TIL the CPU powering NASA’s New Horizons is the same CPU which powered the original Playstation

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nlrb TIL: A 2700 year old bag of weed was found in a grave.
9w7R7 TIL art was part of the Olympics between 1912 and 1948 with Germany being the overall winner in terms of gold medals with seven. Categories included architecture, sculpture, music and painting.
xkZb TIL There is a bridge in Scotland known as the Overtoun Bridge where around 600 dogs have willingly plunged from the bridge and ended their lives, it has been observed that certain dogs jumped off the bridge and survived climbed back up and threw themselves of it again.
oe6E TIL that NASA is currently attempting to bring the “Monstrous F-1 moon rocket back to life”… and pretty successfully too.
g4QL TIL during WWII Canada gave out buttons to people who tried to enlist but were refused due to medical reasons to show their willingness to fight