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TIL that an $80 Windows program sold in 1995 claimed to double your system’s RAM. Researchers found that it just changed a system setting users could change for free, and reported false system information to the user. After an FTC settlement, buyers got a $10 refund.

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exDE TIL There is an old soviet scientific research hut buried 20 ft. under snow in one of the most inaccessible places in Antarctica. If you can make it in the hut there is a visitors book you can sign.
loevN TIL 5,600 Americans died during the building of the Panama Canal, and 22,000 French workers died before the Americans took the job over.
rNNoo TIL Mau Piailug can be credited with keeping traditional wayfinding alive for the indigenous peoples of Oceania
EgJEx TIL that Technicolor is named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of the founders of Technicolor, Inc., Herbert Kalmus and Daniel Frost Comstock, received their undergraduate degrees in 1904.
jXXM TIL that the rule dictating when to use “fewer” instead of “less” is completely based on the personal preference of a grammarian in the 1770s