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TIL The first commercial graphing calculator was introduced by Casio in 1985 for $75. By 1986 it had been adopted by a program in Ohio schools, and other states soon followed

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XEW0Q TIL cows are the cause of 20 times more deaths than sharks. Whenever a cow gets scared they will charge and attack, considering they are over 1000 pounds death due to a cow charge is highly plausible. Sharks usually only kill humans when they mistake them for some other source of food like a turtle.
9wgP7 TIL That at the time of his death, the inventor of kitty litter was worth about a hundred million dollars (or $849 million today, adjusted for inflation).
grLBX TIL Bruce Willis was suffering from FTD for his last 30 movies, which were all terrible. He didn't even know he was on the set. Where was his wife?
x6jbg TIL about Nan Madol, a city built on several artificial islands in Micronesia which was the capital of the Saudeleur Dynasty. It had 25000 inhabitants and lasted from 1st century BCE to 1628 CE.
5Nm8 TIL when talking about how she had managed to become a model, Calvin Klein model Cameron Russell said: “The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery”