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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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j6npn TIL of the 1963 Children's Crusade in the US, when more than 1,000 students marched in the fight for Civil Rights. Most of them were teenagers, but some were as young as six years old, at least 600 were taken into custody.
p8EBN TIL Noah Webster thought "Beauty" should be pronounced "Booty" (From his 1828 dictionary and Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue)
Oobd6 TIL Sand Cats are a thing and they don't drink water.
DYre TIL that the Hawaiian language has only eight consonants: H, K, L, M, N, P, W, and ʻokina. Every consonant must be followed by a vowel.
loyNN TIL your body will dissolve loose pieces of bone in your body after a fracture