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TIL Plywood has been around for at least 4500 years
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TIL In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.
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TIL about the accidental invention of the potato chip
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TIL One farming family in California uses more water then all of Las Vegas
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TIL that the first time a non-American won the Pulitzer Prize was in 1938. That year, the Edmonton Journal newspaper won for fighting against the Accurate News and Information Act, a piece of legislation created by Alberta premier William Aberhart to stifle his critics in the free press.
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TIL that George Lucas took a $500,000 pay cut to his salary as director of ''Star Wars'' in exchange for full ownership of the franchise's merchandising rights. By 2012, the first six films produced approximately US$20 billion in merchandising revenue.