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TIL the first Google server was housed in a cabinet made of Lego bricks

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wL6O7 TIL German-Italian microcar BMW Isetta was modified to hide a person inside the engine bay in order to escape unsuspecting East German border police. Nine people were able to defect successfully before being discovered.
Ap5a TIL In English, adjectives go in this order: Opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose-noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.
YplrP TIL that green is the rarest eye color with only 2% of the world having it. brown is the most common at 70-79%
x6OLB TIL George the Lobster is the oldest recorded lobster ever, estimated to be 140 years old (born ~1869) at the time of his capture in 2008 off the coast of Newfoundland. He was released back into the wild in 2009 and it is unknown if he remains alive today.
E17Jo TIL there are 18.6 million millionaires in the USA, which is 40% of the worlds millionaires despite having just 4% of the worlds population