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

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l0VA TIL there is a 30 meters wide rock standing out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean which was walked on by less than 20 people - almost as few as the moon.
R7NG6 TIL Of Frances Kelsey, the physician who refused to allow the deadly drug Thalidomide from entering circulation into the US in the 1960's, saving numerous American infants from disfiguration and birth defects
awm4o TIL that John Lennon wrote I am the Walrus just to mess with people trying to find meaning in his songs
gM7PL TIL the word potassium is derived from the pre-industrial era method of obtaining the element: soaking plant ashes in a pot
R54A1 TIL: It is illegal in most states to name your child "God".