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TIL The first reference to files in the context of computing was in 1940 when a computer function was stored in a “file of punched cards”. The idea of a file system that managed virtual "files" on a storage device was introduced in 1961 by the Burroughs MCP and the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System

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7rbRP TIL there is a man-made lake called "Ewok Lake" on the Skywalker Ranch owned by George Lucas
wLNe1 TIL: Street food in Vietnam is so available, fast and cheap that international fast food chains like McDonald’s flopped after entering
OGPLX TIL Sam Kinison and Roseanne Barr were the inspiration for two leading roles on TV's "Married...With Children" and both turned it down
8eM7L TIL that dinosaur soft tissues and cells really do preserve in fossil bones. Maybe even proteins! A newly peer-reviewed “chemical framework”, based heavily on organic geochemistry, has been proposed that plausibly explains this phenomenon. Science fiction looks like it’s becoming reality.
jNokv TIL about Coxey's Army. It was the first popular protest march on Washington. Composed of unemployed workers from the United States, the protesters petitioned for government jobs in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time.