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TIL that the pledge of allegiance in schools was conceived by a businessman who wanted to sell flags.

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eDp4 TIL In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first ‘SUPER’ computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5 MB of data.
DwZr TIL that a Dutch athlete was banned from competing (for life) after refusing a sex test in 1950. After her death in 2007, an autopsy discovered a Y chromosome in her DNA, suggesting she was a genetic mosaic…
dMAZ TIL Pixar rewrote its animation system for the first time in 25 years to make the movie ‘Brave’
WBb9 TIL 87% of parents will buy or make Easter baskets for their children—and 81% will then proceed to steal candy from them.
vjZD TIL in the 50’s and 60’s Chester M. Southam injected hundreds of innocent women and prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary with live cancer cells “knowing at the time it might very well cause cancer”, He went onto be the VP of the American Cancer Society.