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TIL Ayn Rand encouraged her followers to vote against Ronald Reagan because he wasn’t pro-choice

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QJA6M TIL that Toshiba created the worlds smallest spinning platter hard drive (HDD) in 2004, at a size of just .85 inches (2.1 CM), which could hold 2 or 4 Gigabytes of data and was even used in phones and Apple iPods of the era.
LQpkv TIL On 911, US Speaker Hasert desperately tried to contact the Vice President to discuss emergency operations at the US Capitol until his phone line was interrupted. Thinking it was coming from the White House, he answered, only to discover a random citizen complaining about high taxes and pollution
mxyXO TIL over 84,000 scrolls were found behind a wall in the Sakya Monastery in 2003. They were untouched for hundreds of years.
r7Lo TIL: That in 1996 The New York Times crossword correctly used either candidate of the presidential election as the answer to who would be elected the next day!
xORb TIL that Nas listed his daughter as an executive producer on his album Stillmatic so that she could always receive royalty checks from the album’s sales.