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

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eXVb TIL The Gutians were a pale & blond people from modern Iran who conquered the Akkadian Empire and briefly conquered the Sumerian Empire before disappearing from records in 2050 BC. Historians believe they might have been part of a recent wave of Indo-European migration into the Middle-East
610l TIL the Romanian word for ‘Turkish Delight’ directly translates into English as 'shit’.
e0veE TIL John Mellancamp's former keyboardist was placed on the FBI's most wanted list and eventually caught for producing child pornography
j6Xxv TIL that German soldier Alfred Liskow defected to the Soviets the day before Operation Barbarossa to warn them of Germany's imminent invasion, only to be arrested by the NKVD for spreading "disinformation."
9wE1B TIL During the famine of 1328-30 many cities in Italy expelled people to preserve supplies. Florence took them in and provided aid for them along with its own citizens. They established government taskforces that implemented relief measures and spent about 60k gold florins in aid programs