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TIL that Florida is a flatter state than Kansas.

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P1dGO TIL the Berkeley Mafia were Indonesian economists trained in the US who took key roles under Suharto in the late 1960s. They reversed Sukarno’s economic policies, promoted capitalism, and aligned with the US during the Cold War.
DEwp TIL The Lion King game led to the creation of Direct X.
8eBRP TIL that Pluto is not the only Dwarf Planet, there are at least eight others in this category, and that Ceres was discovered over 100 years before Pluto and labeled as a planet for over 50 years until it was demoted similar to way Pluto was.
m1vly TIL that the founder of Chuckee Cheese was also involved in the creation of Atari
rx60 TIL The Trachtenberg system of rapid and high-speed mental calculation was developed by a Jewish engineer Jakow Trachtenberg in order to mantain his sanity while being held in a Nazi concentration camp