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TIL John Blankenbaker made the prototype of the Kenbak-1 personal computer in his garage

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8a9ZK TIL Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the worth and two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70
woyYW TIL about Jess Larochelle, a Canadian war hero. Despite sustaining severe injuries, including a concussion, broken back, neck, detached retina, and blown eardrum, confronted and forced the retreat of 40 Taliban fighters. There is a campaign to upgrade his war decoration to a Victoria Cross.
VM1mm TIL Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. Today, maize accounts for more than half the calories people consume in many African countries. Maize supplanted Africa’s own historical grain crops—sorghum, millet, and rice
p8knA TIL Larry Hillblom, the H of DHL, regularly took "sex safari" trips to Asia to prey on underage girls. When he died in a plane crash, 4 of the illegitimate children he fathered were able to claim $50 million each from his estate.
XLZQ TIL CDs are 74 minutes long because the president of Sony wanted to listen to Beethovens 9th symphony without interruption