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TIL Apollo 11 was landed on the moon using a computer that had 1300 times less processing power than iPhone 5s.

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agvA TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
OGQo6 TIL human poop is used as fertilizer on farm fields
P1L4E TIL ABBA has only given two artists permission to sample one of their songs: Madonna for her 2005 hit "Hung Up"; and the Fugees for "Rumble in the Jungle" for the soundtrack of the film When We Were Kings.
oAQo TIL a man who was stranded in the woods chopped down some power lines so that the repairmen would have to come and rescue him.
R7eY8 TIL the term “the big apple” originally referred to horse racing. The city got its most famous nickname from a local newspaper’s horse racing column in the 1920s. Prior to the city’s adoption of the nickname, the phrase “Big Apple” was used to describe a big money prize at important horse races.