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TIL that the outro music for the TV series Bottom was actually a hit from 1961 for The Mar Keys called Last Night.

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VM5QG TIL One reason the Lockheed F-117 and the HB1001 look like retro low-poly computer models is because they literally are. In 1974 when Denys Overholser leveraged 60s Soviet algorithms to calculate radar reflection, computers weren't powerful enough to reliably perform this function on curved surfaces
d89nQ TIL that walruses are capable of whisteling
Om11 TIL that in 2002, the popular MMORPG Everquest was the 77th richest country in the world inbetween Russia and Bulgeria. Virutal internal markets and illegal online trading meant that the in-game country ‘Norrath’ had a Product Per Capita of $2266, more than India and China.
gMGN4 TIL President Nixon decided that 135 countries of the world each deserved to have a piece of the moon collected by American astronauts, so he gave away Goodwill Moon Rocks. It is believed that as many as half of the Goodwill Moon Rocks have been lost or stolen
BgoL TIL that sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s are estimated to have killed over 500,000 children. When confronted with this statistic, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright remarked that this cost was “worth it” to promote regime change