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TIL that America’s nuclear arsenal stills runs off of 8 inch floppy disks

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xV0GB TIL that the Catholic Church runs 26% of the world’s hospitals
BgQgx TIL There was an English King, Henry II, who at one point controlled more of France than the French King Louis VII.
0XAv TIL since its release in 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has made more than $365 Million at the box office, making it the 7th highest grossing R-rated film of all time.
nNr7 TIL that when Zach Braff originally appeared on MTV’s “Punk’d,” he actually punched Ryan Pinkston in the stomach, but the fight was edited out of the footage; in Braff’s own words, “They edited it out, because apparently you’re not supposed to punch people on Punk’d.”
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