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TIL: In 1965, Heinz Holzapfel, his wife Jutta and son, fled the communist east Berlin ziplining from a government building over the Berlin Wall.

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gMGJD TIL Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He was frustrated with the fact that he had to go and ask his coworkers what data was on their computer so he can add it to his computer which led to him creating an application that became the world wide Web.
YpYwG TIL that Burger King and Popeyes are owned by the same company.
gMePD TIL saving data to an SSD, RAM, flash memory, etc. increases its weight by an extremely small amount. One calculation states that 1GB of flash memory completely filled with 1s weighs something like 729 femtograms more than the same memory filled with zeros.
rXY4 TIL there are 350 million Chinese smokers, higher than the population of the United States, and 60% of all male physicians smoke. Cigarette sales generate 7-10% of the government’s revenue.
W7O7A TIL after Kevin Costner declined the lead role in the film Tombstone to develop what turned into the film Wyatt Earp instead, he attempted to "blacklist" Tombstone & commandeered every Western costume in Hollywood. Yet it was more well-received & made more money than Wyatt Earp on a smaller budget.