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TIL: Ternary computers use trits instead of bits and they are cheaper to manufacture and operate than binary computers.

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KO9M6 TIL the reason Phoenix can exist in the middle of the desert is because in 1868 Jack Swilling discovered the ruins of a 27,000 sqmi canal system built by the Hohokam. He restarted the canals and today that infrastructure, with modern expansions, waters the city of over a million in the hot desert.
RaW1 TIL there is a constructed language named Kēlen which was made as an attempt to create a truly “non-human” language.
loGeK TIL that sailors slept in hammocks, as they stayed well balanced even if the ship was in motion. The Royal Navy formally adopted the sling hammock in 1597 much after Columbus discovered them in the Bahamas. Sailors got so accustomed to hammocks that they even took them back on leave.
D1bVe TIL About Joginder Singh, an Indian soldier who single-handedly killed 56 people in one battle with a bayonet.
0LNA TIL that the German Blitzkrieg on France in 1940 was fueled in large part by crystal meth. A patented pill form of the drug called Pervitin enabled German soldiers to fight for days at a time without sleeping.