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

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d8LQE TIL that a duck’s wake always creates an angle of 38.9 degrees no matter how fast the duck is going
Z8LkB TIL: While filming the 1925 Ben-Hur the director split Italian extras based on fascist or antifascist factions to make the fighting more realistic. Real swords were removed from the scene to prevent things from getting too out of hand
vPEPB TIL the longest medically verified amount of time that someone has spent sleeping, was 11 days by a 7 year old boy called Wyatt Shaw
dAKQ TIL that during the recording of Iron Maiden’s “Number of the Beast”, unexplained phenomena occurred. This all climaxed when the producer, Martin Birch, was involved in a car accident with a mini-bus transporting a group of nuns, after which he was presented with a repair bill for £666.
9wVL6 TIL that humans are the only animals that have chins