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TIL that 25% of US Presidents were raised without a father.

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NXkl1 TIL that 64 bits of RAM in 1970 cost $99.5 in 1970 dollars. It could store an 8 letter string and that was it.
W77B TIL Komodo Dragons will dig up human remains and eat them.
6OeW TIL in 1925 an all-black baseball team in Wichita, Kansas played an exhibition against a local KKK Klavern, with Irish Catholics serving as umpires. The black team won 10-8.
wYVo TIL a music artist has to get over 4 million plays on Spotify each month to equal a minimum wage living. (Article also shows how much of each other type of media would have to be sold to earn minimum wage.)
1Y7D TIL the Law & Order sound is trademarked, and described as “two musical notes, a strike and a rapid rearticulation of a perfect fifth pitch interval, which in the key of C sounds the notes C and G, struck concurrently”