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TIL a company was making a pill that prevented ejaculations but kept orgasms and helped prevent HIV but development is in hiatus bc of lack of funds

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J1y1B TIL the original Godzilla suit was made out of concrete due to shortages of rubber in post-war Japan. The suit weighed 100kg and became hot to even touch it.
9YLrD TIL the Atari 2600 (1977) only had 128 bytes of RAM (0.000128 MB), a 1.19 MHz CPU, and only supported games up to 4 kilobytes. To get games larger than 4 KB, the ROM had to be split into 4 KB "pages" that the program could flip between like pages in a book, allowing the console to access more data.
68xJ TIL that so many millions of people died so quickly in the influenza epidemic of 1918 that when people laid them out for their funerals in the parlor, the room got the nickname the “Death Room.” The Ladies Home Journal suggested changing the name to “Living Room” instead, to honor the living.
6En1w TIL members of the crow family (crows, Jays, Ravens, etc) can conceive of 'fair' and 'unfair' treatment and can hold grudges against specific humans for years at a time. They also hold funerals for their dead.
neV6B TIL in an 8-hour workday, the average worker is productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.