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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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9wgeM Today I learned that the creator of Barney the Dinosaur had a son who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2013 for shooting his neighbour.
pkaN TIL Adolf Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler, died from breast cancer in 1909. In 1940 Adolf showed gratitude to their family doctor Eduard Bloch (who was Jewish) for treating his mother by allowing him to emigrate with his wife to the United States from Austria.
GYkRj TIL The bias and slanted media coverage of the 2005 Michael Jackson molestation trial has been referred to as "One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History". The media would extensively cover the seedy accusations but completely unreported witnesses crumbling under cross examination.
lY87 TIL most mass shootings in the U.S. occur in ‘Gun Free Zones’
GAQjQ TIL Ulysses S. Grant met with Susan B. Anthony while President in 1872 to discuss the possibility of women's suffrage. Although he was unable to get them the vote, Grant did succeed in expanding women's rights including in the workforce, appointing thousands of female Postmasters across the country.