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TIL During IBM Watson’s Jeapordy Game, it stored all 15 terabytes of it’s knowledge in RAM, including every page of Wikipedia in existence.

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4krZN TIL For the movie Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Natalie Wood almost did not get the role of Judy because Nicholas Ray thought that she did not fit the role of the wild teen character. Ray was convinced when someone at the hospital called her a "goddamn juvenile delinquent" after her car accident.
x6ZxB TIL the Tower of Hercules in Galicia, Spain is the oldest lighthouse in the world. Dating to the 1st Century under Trajan, it was modeled after the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
XpKk TIL a Filipino president pardoned a Japanese soldier in 1974 who committed multiple murders and engaged police in numerous shootouts, because the soldier refused to believe that WWII was over.
ADn67 TIL of "Maplewashing", which is a tendency of Canadian institutions to present Canada as a morally superior place
wE1P TIL that the company that makes Atrazine, a vastly used herbicide that has been linked to breast cancer; also manufacturers the drug that is a treatment for breast cancer.