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TIL that engineers at IBM had to hand weave their memory 14KB in total for both control and redundancy of their flight computer in the SATURN V launch vehicle. Wire shaped inside the mesh represented a bit based on the magnetic field generated by the direction of current flowing through it.

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9wwZX TIL Indian businessman Anil Ambani was once the sixth richest person in the world to later declare bankrupt with zero networth after considering his liabilities
v1DXD TIL there’s an extremely rare 4-under par score in golf called a “Condor” that is so rare there have only been 4 confirmed instances of them in history
WOOL TIL a boy was scalped by a Sioux chief, Little Turtle, and lived to tell about it. His scalpless head was photographed 30 years later.
epeGb TIL of existence of rogue holes, the inverse of rogue waves, where the depth of the hole can reach more than twice the significant wave height
DQKmJ TIL in 1996 when Wendy Day took Eminem's demo to different labels, she couldn’t get any of them to even consider signing him because he's white. So she created the Rap Olympics to showcase his talent & bring attention back to lyricism. At the event, Em made the contact that led to signing a deal.