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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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VEV4 TIL a Siberian Husky’s coat enables it to withstand temperatures from -58 to -76 degrees (F)
j6dWp TIL There was no hot water supply on board Apollo Lunar module or Command module so all meals were served cold. Astronauts Scott and Irwin all asked for more food to be brought as walking on the Moon required huge reserves of energy and stamina
N711J TIL the expression 'oi' was voted to be the 61st most beautiful word in the English language by a poll of non-English speakers in 2004. It was added to US Scrabble in 2006.
W745o Today I Learned Chiune Sugihara, the famous diplomat who wrote visas to 6,000 jews, was born on January 1, 1900, the first day of the first month of the first year of the 20th century.
R5d18 TIL about Arrow Air Flight 1285, a charter aircraft that crashed on takeoff in Gander, Canada. Killing 248 (+8 crew) US Army soldiers returning from a peacekeeping deployment. Prob Cause: thin ice/extra weight leading to stall.