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

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VBkRm TIL that giving stimulants to kids with ADHD has a "neuro-protective" effect, helping multiple regions of the brain to develop normally. And the younger they start the better the outcome.
QomE TIL the “Harlem Hellfighters” were the first African-American regiment to serve with the American Expenditionary Forces during WW1. They never lost a trench, a man through capture, or a foot of ground to the enemy.
nykP TIL John Lennon originally wrote “Come Together” as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, who was running for governor of California at the time. When the song didn’t work out, Lennon took it to the Beatles. It was the last song all four Beatles cut together.
6EEeY TIL that Osama bin Laden's computer, alongside popular movies like Charlie Bit My Finger, it also had a 9/11 truther video
xVpd5 TIL that in 18th and 19th century Europe, grave robbing became such a pressing issue that elaborate traps were invented by the graveyard workers to kill those who tried to dig up the recently buried corpses.