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TIL That the most unlikely Celebs are geniuses (Dolph Lundgren!)

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D1GZe TIL after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart started her own fashion line. Unconventional materials such as parachute silk and textile from airplane wings were used in some designs, and she gave a nod to her love of aviation with buttons shaped like propellers.
5YB7R TIL Buganda's Indigenous religion has a saying for when they pray to their gods for help “Lubaale mbeera, nga n'embiro kw'otadde" (pray for deliverance from danger, but start running too).
GAvwJ TIL of the Diamond Sutra, the World’s oldest dated printed book
oB1eK TIL the Jamaican bobsled team received $30,000 in Dogecoin, funding their trip to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics
gMePD TIL saving data to an SSD, RAM, flash memory, etc. increases its weight by an extremely small amount. One calculation states that 1GB of flash memory completely filled with 1s weighs something like 729 femtograms more than the same memory filled with zeros.