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TIL Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr did NOT help invent Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or cellphones...

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W74Eo TIL 36 seconds after takeoff, Apollo 12 was struck by lightning and the computers, particularly those dealing with telemetry, immediately became garbled. The mission was almost aborted before engineer John Aaron recommended an obscure switch which reset data, saving the mission
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