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TIL Lego Mindstorms was named after Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, a book arguing the benefits of teaching computer literacy in primary and secondary education written by Seymour Papert, an AI pioneer and the co-creator of Turtle graphics and the LOGO programming language

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QYed TIL Subaru put seats in the back of their Brat compact pickup to cut the import duty from 25% to 2.5% by calling it a ‘car’
ykww TIL that during the civil war, the Union counterfeited Confederate currency and deliberately gave it away in the South to cause massive inflation
b6YEZ TIL Hollywood acting legend Jimmy Stewart, was a highly decorated WWII veteran, flew 20 missions over Nazi Germany in his B-24 and held the rank of Brigadier General, making him the highest ranked US actor or actress of all time.
XEej8 TIL although iodine was added to table salt in the U.S. beginning in 1924 as an antidote to goiters caused by iodine deficiency, it had the unanticipated side effect of raising the national IQ by an average of 3.5 points.
ADdOn TIL, killer whales are actually a species of large dolphins!