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TIl Norway’s doctors still use floppy disks, apparently they’re more secure than modern alternatives.

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8y1L TIL someone took all the details from the Ice Cube song Today Was a Good Day to figure out which day it took place on and the song took place on January 20th, 1992.
v1DnL TIL that David Werder sat on a flagpole for over a year to protest gas prices in 1982-1984
D1WJP TIL John Lennon's song, "Because," is based on Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"
rRG6d TIL the most successful and feared allied spy of WWII, Virginia Hall, was an American woman with a prosthetic leg. She escaped France on foot through the Pyrenees mts, re-entered before D Day, and organized havoc behind the Nazi lines.
ep7rJ TIL that in 1866 the US Congress passed legislation that legally protected use of the metric system in commerce.