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TIL that Intel was going to be called Moore Noyce but it was scrapped because it sounded too close to more noise

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VMarB TIL British breweries donated free beer to soldiers during WWII, but after D-Day, there was no room for it on the ships going across the English Channel. Spitfire mechanics and pilots worked together to modify pylons to carry beer kegs and deliver brews to the troops. Flying high enough chilled it.
awPvM TIL of the megatherium, which was a huge prehistoric sloth, which could measure up to 6m in length and weigh up to 4000kg.
0LOM TIL that in 1589 John Stubbs was sentenced by Queen Elizabeth to have his hand severed for seditious writing, and before the axe fell, he cried out, “My calamity is at hand!” - thus becoming the only known victim of Elizabeth to incorporate a pun at his dismemberment. He then fainted.
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xVlpD TIL Judas has his own Gospel written in Coptic Language, which provides another perspective of the infamous biblical villain (Repost)