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D1J4v TIL Ulysses S. Grant appointed several Black and Jewish leaders to office during his presidency.
KaEG TIL that computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing, died after biting into an apple laced with cyanide. It was rumored that the Apple Inc. logo had a bite taken from it to represent the poison apple. The designer has said, it wasn’t, but “It’s a wonderful urban legend.”
o9e8 TIL that the memory used in the Apollo spacecraft’s computer was based on weaving thin copper wires around magnetic doughnuts. Half a mile of wire gave them 65 kBits of information.
6lJ8 TIL Land Rover’s first design had the steering wheel in the middle so it could be used in left or right side driving counties without modifications.
byoj TIL that in 1965 Pakistani pilot M.M. Alam shot down five jet fighters in less than a minute – the first four within 30 seconds, establishing a world record.