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TIL that the Ada programming language was designed in 1977 to replace 450 programming languages used by the US Dept. of Defense at the time

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DQVmr TIL about hemochromatosis, a condition that makes you absorb excess iron in your blood. The main therapy method is to donate blood every 1-16 weeks.
6X5m TIL the Apollo 11 flag was bought at Sears for less than six dollars.
lZZ5 TIL that the first cloned pet was a cat and it’s name was Copy Cat
OG6YX TIL Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when he saw the name misspelled as "Edmond" in Newsweek magazine. He felt the misspelling dishonored the memory of the 29 men who died when the freighter sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975.
KYwyE TIL SonoPrep is a method of painless drug administration through human skin by rendering the skin permeable to fluids via the use of ultrasonic wave. The skin goes back to its normal state within 24 hours.