› added 11 months ago

102

TIL In 1974, Richard built the world’s first 16-bit personal computer. Eric programmed the machine. A year later, Scott authored the first graphic video game for a personal computer.

Read more news.fit.edu

via reddit.com

w0b7 TIL that even though Froot Loops are different colors they are all the same flavor
KOAK6 TIL there is one character owned by both Marvel and DC, named Access, whose sole purpose is to try to keep both companies' universes separate.
dMpZ TIL that a higher percentage of free blacks owned slaves (28%) than free whites (1.4%).
Er6X TIL-King Otto of Bavaria – who ‘ruled’ from 1886 to 1913, and was quite mad – exercised his right to shoot one peasant every day. Luckily for Bavaria’s peasants, his attendants gave him pistols loaded with blanks and dressed up as peasants, playing dead whenever he ‘shot’ them.
VMjy8 TIL polygamist Brigham Young got out of paying alimony to one of his ex-wives on the grounds that — since polygamy was illegal — they were never actually married.