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TIL during the last ice age icebergs were found as far south as Miami

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X0ER TIL During the Cold War, the US military developed a rifle that fired nuclear war heads. It was called the Davy Crocket.
5YaLn TIL that the first computer game was Nim, released in April 1940 on a computer called the Nimatron, which weighed over a ton. The designer was a nuclear physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer who later participated in the Manhattan Project. 100,000 games were played, with the computer winning ~90%
ZpgmR TIL The first digital computer weighed 30 tons & was 30 m long. But when integrated circuits were invented, the same computer would weigh a few grams & measure 7.44 mm by 5.29 mm.
0w6L5 TIL there were lions in the wild of North Africa until the 1960s.
LQgwZ TIL the term "house poor," which is anyone whose housing expenses account for an exorbitant percentage of their monthly budget.