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TIL of a program called SoftRAM95, claiming to double your RAM without a hardware upgrade. It sold 600,000 copies at $79.95 and did absolutely nothing.

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9Yab6 TIL that back in 2800 B.C., cities in Pakistan had a form of plumbing for bathing and sanitization which would later become the influence for the modern day bathroom. & The earliest known bath tub dates back to 1700 B.C., found in the Palace of Knossos, in Crete.
4XPDX TIL about the navy of Mongolia, which sits on a lake with no strategic importance whatsoever, and consists of a single tugboat crewed by 7 people, only one of whom can swim.
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