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TIL that at one point, Blockbuster was growing so fast that it was opening a new store every 17 hours

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R7aEl TIl John Milton was totally blind during the composition of his ten-thousand-line epic poem Paradise Lost. Every morning he would have verses already prepared in his head for his aide to take dicatation. If the aide was late, Milton would complain, saying 'I want to be milked'
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Oo9Z4 TIL about Folding@Home and Project 11747
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