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TIL That Sim Cards Actually Are Mini Computers With Their Own CPU, ROM, RAM, and EEPROM

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69BB8 TIL that the slang term "The boonies", used to describe remote rural areas, is short for "The boondocks" which comes from the Tagalog word "Bundok", which means mountains. Boondocks was coined during the Philippine-American war of 1899.
wL6R6 TIL that there's a Starbucks cup visible in every scene of the movie Fight Club. Talk about Mischief, Mayhem and Soap.
b9ZkN TIL that following the September 11th attacks, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) made a list of songs that weren’t allowed to be played on the stations they owned. This list includes every song made by Rage Against the Machine.
X0ZlQ TIL the SR-71 Blackbird used an Astro-inertial navigation system, a special camera pointed at the sky. Its "blue light" source star tracker could see stars day and night and “was good enough to limit drift to 1,000 ft (300 m) off the direction of travel at Mach 3.”
vPpQj TIL that Greenland is part of North America. I've always considered Greenland part of Europe because the Kingdom of Denmark governs it, and it is technically in the European Union. But alas, it's geographically North American.