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TIL over 80% of the world have never flown on an airplane

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VM5VD TIL Your computer's RAM has to constantly remind itself of the data it's holding due to capacitor leakage. This is the main reason why it's slower for the CPU to use compared to on-die memory circuits.
R7dg7 TIL Julie Andrews was the lead in the original Broadway production of “My Fair Lady”, but not in the 1964 film due to not being well-known enough; the role eventually went to Audrey Hepburn. Andrews won the 1965 Best Actress Oscar over Hepburn for playing Mary Poppins.
8g0Z TIL that by typing in the cheat code ‘O CANADA’ in the games Age of Mythology/AoE3, you could spawn a near-invincible 1,400lb Canadian Lazer Bear that flies with a Canadian flag cape and shoots laser beams from its eyes.
dllj TIL you only need 27% of the US population to vote for you to become president.
4RB5 TIL that in 2004 the company Alcoa had to officially declare the proposed site for its new aluminum smelting plant in Iceland “elf-free” before it could begin construction.