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xVRD7 TIL about 'Pluto Lamps', Victorian Era street lights that sold hot coffee and soup.
OoOGa TIL one of the first functional digital home computers was the Digi-Comp I from 1963. It was entirely mechanical and used no electricity. It could output 3 binary digits and programmers used thin wires to set up primitive logic. With no power, the user had to pull a lever to perform each CPU cycle.
r7B4 TIL that the FBI used ‘an effective, time-tested process’ to internally address shooting incidents and concluded themselves faultless in 150 shootings.
R5Z1Q TIL prohibition was law in Kansas until after World War II
R5wk4 TIL Chuck Norris was an Air Force security policeman in 1958, and learned martial arts while stationed in South Korea. Returning to California he tried to become a police officer but had great success opening karate schools and participating in competitions.