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TIL ARM processors are a descendent of the Acorn RISC machines I learned Logo on in primary school

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e4QD TIL Chartreuse is a 110 proof liquor made by Carthusian Monks since the 1700’s.
Z8pxo TIL Don Henley called paramedics to his home on November 21, 1980, where a 16-year-old girl was found naked and claiming she had overdosed on quaaludes and cocaine. Henley got away with only a contributing to the delinquency of a minor charge and a $2,500 fine.
VMN1p TIL, premature babies in incubators were a sideshow along the boardwalk at Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th century. Incubators wouldn't be widely used in hospitals for several more decades.
6EWGm TIL that Baby Oil is not made from babies but rather mostly from mineral oil or vegetable oil
NX85E TIL: President Warren G. Harding lost a set of White House china and a game of cards.