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TIL at the 1964 World's Fair, IBM passed over their computers to showcase the electric typewriter, which they thought would be more innovative and revolutionary.

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N7XPQ TIL in the book Forrest Gump, Forrest was 6 foot 5, and cursed a lot, had a low iq and normal legs as a kid, he became a astronaut where he finds a ape named sue, they crash in the jungles and are captured by cannibals, Forrest farms shrimp in shallow pools and travel the world with Lt. Dan and sue
ANkZw TIL we can inherit traits from our parents and even emotions like fear. From Science, a recent study "found that heritable changes in plant flowering time and other traits were the result of epigenetics alone."
e0o66 TIL the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that sank in Italy in 2012, had the theme song for Titanic (1997) playing in one of its restaurants when it made first impact
DQX7v TIL in 2017, Ford Motor Company sued John Cena for selling his all-new Ford GT supercar too soon
BgR6e TIL, that 'Iolani Palace in Honolulu Hawaii is the only official royal residence on US soil. When finished in 1882 it had indoor plumbing, electric lighting, and an early telephone. It had electrical lighting 8 years before the Whitehouse did in 1891.