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TIL that cats bring home dead animals to show you that you are bad at hunting.

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ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.
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.
dDrOE TIL that an 18 year old called John Horwood was hanged for murder in Bristol and his skin was used to bind his trial transcripts. The transcript book is currently in the M Shed in Bristol’s Prince’s Wharf.
E1jmo TIL that "ringworm" is a fungal infection and no actual worms are involved
e0yon TIL that Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises