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TIL a smartphone is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computers

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4XMob TIL that the most effective sniper in WWI was a Canadian First Nations soldier named Francis Pegahmagabow who killed 378 Germans soldiers and captured 300 more.
X04Dr Today I learned that when Greg Daniels was hired for the Simpsons writing staff, he believed that the show was past its "glory years". This was in 1993.
pVop TIL there’s a Burger King in Finland with a nude sauna built in. You can also bring the food you bought and eat in there.
78LKp TIL of the egg fried rice protests, a form of anti government protest In China where internet users post recipes for fried rice on October 24th, and November 25th. This is in reference to the birth and death of the son of Mao Zedong, who died from a bomb whilst cooking outside during the Korean war
N79K8 TIL Prince William will be the first English king (>50% English ancestry) of the UK/England since 1066. Normandies to Plantagenets were French, Tudors were Welsh, Stuarts were Scots, Hanovers to Windsors were Germans, QE2 is half-Scottish, and Charles is half-Greek.