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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.

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VM990 TIL that in May 2006, the tailfin of an F-14 Tomcat washed up on a beach in Ireland. It was discovered to have come from an aircraft that had crashed 4,900 miles away during a training flight in the Gulf of Mexico 3 1/2 years earlier.
v1AVD TIL Credit Card Information can be stolen wirelessly from an arms length while you still have them in your purse. Thieves wirelessly scanned a credit card in a woman's purse while she exited her vehicle outside a Walmart store and then used it while she was still inside the store.
awYxJ TIL, smokers are exposed to some of the highest levels of radiation on earth from the radioactive traces of Polonium and Lead in tobacco.
wkoM TIL that on this day, April 21st, 2766 years ago, Romulus and Remus founded Rome.
8a0x4 TIL that Johnny Appleseed, of American folklore fame, may have been planting apples that were good for eating, but suitable for making hard cider from. He was basically going around planting apples to eventually turn into booze, and that is why he was so welcome wherever he went.