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TIL Sharon Tate was the inspiration for Malibu Barbie

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wDaW TIL one of the first instances of a stored computer program was in 1801, when Joseph Marie Jacquard demonstrated a loom that wove fabrics based on hole-punched cards that were fed into the machine.
jNkwQ TIL Humans and the Tyrannosaurus rex are closer on the world's timeline than the T. rex and Stegosaurus.
mx1Kx TIL The bony-eared assfish has the smallest known brain-to-body mass ratio of all vertebrates
jNAdN TIL there are no recorded fatal attacks of wild Orcas on humans. In 2005 a 12 yr old boy in AK was bumped by a killer whale while splashing in 4 ft of water. The boy was likely mistaken for a seal and the bump was an aborted attack once the whale realized the mistake
Mv0A TIL: there’s a town in Australia where half of its population live in caves carved underground to stay away from the heat.