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TIL that the new MacBook trackpads don't physically make a click sound or move down. Rather, it's computer-generated.

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epm0E TIL the UK is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned the capability to launch satellites into space. The Black Arrow rocket launched the Prospero satellite into orbit from Australia in Oct 1971. The project was cancelled that same year due to cost.
G5RJ TIL Robin Williams’ rider required that for every single event or film he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work.
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GAQX1 TIL that the least obese country in the world is Vietnam. Its obesity rates stands at only 2.1%, which is lower than Uganda (5.3%), and significantly lower than the U.S. (41.9%)
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