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TIL That in Sid Meier’s Civilization Gandhi was programmed to be the most peaceful leader. Due to a bug in the endgame he becomes the most aggressive and casual user of nuclear weapons.

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yWMM TIL that despite the Seven Years’ War between Britain and France, France instructed its ships not to interfere with the Endeavour’s expedition to Tahiti to observe the 1769 Transit of Venus as, it was ‘out on enterprises of service to all mankind’.
Rv7l TIL there is an American cemetary hidden in northern France that contains the “dishonored dead;” dozens of US service members executed for war crimes committed during WWII
RbB8 TIL in 1998 we almost had HD VHS tapes, in the form of D-VHS which could hold up to 50gb.
vPVAR TIL that to calculate the CPI for a single item, you would simply do CPI = (updated cost / base period cost) x 100. The "updated cost" is divided by that of the initial year, then multiplied by 100.
reYy TIL in 1958, only 4 percent of Americans supported marriage between “whites and non-whites.”