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TIL that an Apple engineer recreated a 2000-Year-Old Computer Using Legos

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l7pbB TIL Monasteries used to distill a compound called "uisge beatha" (pronounced uska beg) which means "water of life" in Gaelic. After it got popularized, people started calling it solely "uska", which led to its final form in present, whiskey.
worZ6 TIL that "Crystal Glass" is refractive because it's made with Lead Oxide.
dDZEj TIL that TED and TEDx talks are two completely different things and not everyone gets to give a TED talk or not as much as of an opportunity you get for a TEDx talk!
kOLg1 TIL O.J. Simpson hosted a hidden-camera reality television show in 2006 where he pulled silly pranks on unsuspecting victims. The pranks are often so ill-conceived that when O.J. utters the show’s tag line, “You’ve been juiced!” it’s unclear, what, in fact, has just happened.
kOJlm TIL a scottish hacker claimed to have hacked into NASA and found them to be airbushing out UFOS of hi-res satellite pics and evidence of an unknown 2nd top secret US military deep space program.