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TIL The NASA Space Shuttles operated with 1mb of RAM in five redundant computers. That's less than the average .mp3 file.

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Y70yA TIL That The Beatles spell their name with an "a" because of the cultural and literary movement of The Beat Generation in 1950's America, and because John Lennon was a fan of Jack Kerouac.
69VEQ TIL That singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford after graduating summa cum laude from Pomona College
008A TIL the tires for the Bugatti Veyron cost $42,000 per set and only last around 15 minutes at top speed.
WkoE9 TIL At a prison facility in Nuuk, Greenland some inmates reportedly hold the keys to their own cells (to afford them privacy), and others may leave the premises during the day to go to work or school. Perhaps surprisingly, inmates are even allowed to go hunting with rifles to shoot birds and seals.
OGyG7 TIL that the flat iron steak was invented in 1998 by two university researchers who were given a grant by the beef industry to reduce waste and promote beef. By 2012, $80M of flat iron steaks were being sold annually.