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TIL Italian-Americans Were the Victims in the Worst Lynching in American History

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oXrA TIL In ancient Greece to throw an apple at someone was to symbolically declare one’s love; and similarly, to catch it was to symbolically show one’s acceptance of that love.
wVk7 TIL Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific in 1947 in a self-built raft to prove ancient people could have made contact between the continents
P8ZE TIL Sperm can live inside a woman’s vagina for up to 5 days waiting for her to begin ovulation.
GYam7 TIL there is a Russian video games news show "Ot vinta" that have started airing in 1995 and ran till 1998. They have continued making episodes through the years with the same hosts and are still going. The same two guys in Russia reviewed the first DOOM in 1995 and DOOM Eternal in 2020.
N78N1 TIL that the Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon landings, had 64 Kilobytes of memory and a .043 Megahertz processor. The iPhone 11 has 4 Gigabytes of memory and a 2.5 Gigahertz processor, more than 58,000 times as powerful.