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

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Y78YW TIL A microscope can simply be reversed to make a telescope. Both telescopes and microscopes were in use in Holland by the end of the sixteenth century
XJp8 TIL there is a condition known as Smoking Stool Syndrome, resulting from severe Phosphorus poisoning, known for making people’s defecate give off smoke as though burning.
b9XrN TIL that the Greenland shark has extremely toxic meat. If the meat is eaten without being treated, the effects on the body are very similar to drunkenness.
LQ1Op TIL about the Bloody Benders, a family of 4 serial killers who lived and operated in Labette County, Kansas from 1871 to 1872. The Ingalls family, from Little House on the Prairie, lived near Independence, and Laura Ingalls Wilder mentioned the Bender family in her writings.
l7j75 TIL they transferred a pig heart into a human successfully last year