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TIL Your smartphone is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computers

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XEZBr TIL that Joseph Medicine Crow earned the title ‘War Chief’ by completing four tasks as a warrior during WWII: leading a successful war party on a raid, capturing an enemy’s weapon, touching an enemy without killing him, and stealing an enemy’s horse.
5YaE8 Today I learned that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was supposed to have been a Meat Loaf song.
b685j TIL in 1917 Italy had a Prime-Minister called 'Vittorio Emanuele' at the same time they had a King called 'Victor Emmanuel'.
WkL14 TIL a man was sentenced to prison for ten years for being the first person to stop applauding a speech made by Joseph Stalin; after a staggering 11 minutes.
AD4Rg TIL the Indian pipe plant, also known as the ghost plant, contains and needs no chlorophyll giving it it's "ghost-like" appearance and allowing it to grow in the darkest parts of forests.