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TIL the first computer mouse was wooden, created in 1964 and named "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System"

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Qrae TIL That Alexandre Dumas was black, and suffered at the hands of racism for most of his life, yet still was celebrated as France’s most widely read writer having written ‘The Three Musketeers’ and 'The Count of Monte Cristo’.
90vm TIL New Zealand is part of a vast submerged continent known to scientists as Zealandia.
QO5a TIL keeping your teeth and gums healthy helps to prevent heart disease, strokes, and dementia.
yVy6l TIL 💥 GRB 221009A nicknamed BOAT • Brightest Of All Time • was the most powerful event ever recorded by humankind. It was a gamma-ray burst detected on October 9, 2022 ~ 2 billion light-years away and released 10,000 times the energy our sun will produce over its lifetime
R57M9 TIL: Observing Ramadan in northern communities can be much easier or much more difficult depending on time of year (in terms of fasting between sunrise and sunset).