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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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yQaMe TIL Whitesnake's 1987 no. 1 hit song, Here I Go Again, was actually a re recording of their 1982 version that never charted. There is only a one word difference in the lyrics. They changed "hobo" to "drifter" to ensure it was no longer mistakenly heard as homo.
yVPAl TIL: Ant corpses release a chemical when they die, and other ants will dispose of the corpse. A scientist once recreated this chemical and put it on a live ant. Its ant friends kept bringing it to the graveyard no matter how much it struggled, cleaned itself, or tried to go back to work.
nmOP TIL Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer as a teenager.
BgVBd TIL In Troy (2004), Brad Pitt and Eric Bana did not use stunt doubles for their epic duel. They made a gentleman's agreement to pay for every accidental hit. $50 for each light hit, $100 for each hard blow. By the end of the scene, Bana didn't owe Pitt anything. Pitt ended up paying Bana $750.
4XYA5 TIL about Hisashi Ouchi who was kept alive for 83 days against his will, after being exposed to radiation.