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TIL The NASA Space Shuttles operated with 1mb of RAM in five redundant computers. That's less than the average .mp3 file.
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TIL the man who invented the Super Soaker and the Nerf gun, invested his fortune in R&D and has created ceramic solid state batteries with 3 times the power of the best lithium-ion batteries
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TIL The United States tried to buy Greenland for $100,000,000, but Denmark refused to sell.
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TIL Willie Nelson was so broke in 1961 that he offered to sell "Hello Walls" to Faron Young for $500. Young loaned him the $500 instead, allowing Nelson to keep the publishing rights. Less than two months later Nelson would French kiss Young in appreciation
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TIL of Michael Orchard, a heroic man who broke into his neighbor's burning home to rescue their dog, and who later found out that the house fire was actually NOT real but was just a hallucination from the LSD he was consuming.