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TIL that macOS and iOS are both based on FreeBSD.

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1aJ5V TIL in the final stages of hypothermia, humans exhibit two strange behaviors; paradoxical undressing, in which a person will remove all their clothes despite being dangerously close to death, and a completely autonomous, instinctual burrowing behavior.
v1kvR TIL the main reason as of why the modernPpaper Mario series seem to avoid their classic rpg design from the first games is because Shigeru Miyamoto doesn't want the developers of the series to "stagnate" on the classic rpg mechanics.
78e0X TIL that Groundhog Day America was brought to America by German settlers. In the original tradition, a hedgehog was used to predict the weather but was switched to the groundhog which was much easier to come across in the Keystone State.
4Xx7R TIL: Sustained supersonic speeds can damage the F-35's stealth coating and antennas embedded in the tail. Instead of fixing the issue, the Pentagon restricted how long the F-35 can fly at supersonic speeds.
OGGY1 TIL Benjamin Franklin wrote a poem about Edward Teach a.k.a. Blackbeard