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TIL in 1953, there was only 53K of RAM in the entire world.

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16xe7 TIL that roly-polies are not insects, they’re crustaceans. Roly-polies belong to the subphylum Crustacea, whereas insects belong to the class Insecta.
xVO0D TIL Audie Murphy received every military combat award for valor available from the US, plus awards from other countries. He single-handedly held off a company of German soldiers for, then led a successful counterattack while wounded & out of ammo.
NX4YE TIL that India has a very rare river shark called the Ganges River Shark, which only has 240 individuals left in the world.
0w8KL TIL about the name ‘Tonibler’ which is a male given name to children in Kosovo in honour of Prime Minister Tony Blair for his role in ending the Kosovo conflict.
x67dk Til about the 1979 Nice Airport (France) landslide and tsunami that combined resulted in at least 15 deaths