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

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xPbb TIL In 1955, Jonas Salk chose not to patent his polio vaccine for the betterment of humanity. As a result, he missed out on earning an estimated $7 billion.
yQ4Ll TIL that after 2 centuries, historians have not been able to identify Beethoven's Immortal Beloved. 'Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.' Two centuries later, historians still haven't agreed on the identity of the woman who inspired the composer's famed lines.
RZb9 TIL that motion sickness is a psychological defense mechanism against neurotoxins. Your brain realizes there is a disconnect between what your eyes see and what your inner ear feels and concludes you are poisoned and hallucinating so it induces nausea and vomiting
rROjw TIL there are 43 presidential busts that are twenty feet tall, in a field near Jamestown VA, rescued from a presidential museum that went bust.
l7orr TIL a group of 100 artists covertly placed props with coded messages onto the set of the soap opera 'Melrose Place' over the span of 2 years. Props included bedsheets with unrolled condoms titled 'Safety Sheets' and paintings depicting locations related to high-profile deaths/murders.