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

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e0eZ6 TIL a sheep in New Zealand avoided being caught and shorn by hiding in caves for 6 years. When finally found, his fleece contained enough wool to make 20 large men's suits.
doVQ TIL when Florence Henderson arrived to do her Brady Bunch screen test, there was no one on staff to do her make-up. She went over to the adjoining studio where Star Trek was filmed and ended up in a make-up chair surrounded by William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and “six or eight space monsters”.
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