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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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8ayJP TIL in 1968, at just 20 years old, Fred Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs and organized a multiracial "Rainbow coalition" to help end infighting and push for social change. He was then murdered in his sleep by the FBI.
bgJQ TIL that Japanese women would keep flushing continuously to mask the sound of them urinating and so devices were introduced which would keep producing the sound of flushing after activation in almost all the public restrooms.
P1L1g TIL that Olivia Wilde‘s birth name is Olivia Jane Cockburn
XEZJ6 TIL that just as % means occurrences per 100, ‰ (a permille) expresses occurrences per 1000.
gVoL TIL When Charles Manson didn’t receive any gifts for Christmas one year he responded by stealing all of his classmates toys and burning them.