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TIL Game of Thrones is written in DOS using WordStar 4.0

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KOQpJ TIL that memories of music cannot be lost to Alzheimer's and dementia. The part of your brain responsible for ASMR catalogs music, and appears to be a stronghold against Alzheimer's and dementia.
LkKn9 TIL it took 75 years for 100 million people to get access to the telephone; the gaming app "Pokemon Go" hooked that many users in less than one month in 2016. That is how fast the digital revolution is compared to other transformations.
WDkN TIL Before 9/11, there were only 16 people on the USA’s ‘NO Fly List’, today there are 99,427.
LQmRr TIL that cordless, battery-operated power tools were originally created by Black & Decker for NASA so astronauts could perform maintenance on spacecraft, and would become available to the public in 1978
PYeRJ TIL one of New York’s first crime bosses was a Prussian immigrant known as Mother Mandelbaum. She built up a criminal empire worth millions, ran a school to teach kids how to become successful pickpockets and thieves, and functioned as one most prominent hostesses for New York’s high society.