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TIL The Author of the "Footprints in the sand" poem is disputed

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JYJkj TIL That a calorie is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius.
grQr4 TIL that in 1958, the first computer bug was a literal moth found inside a Harvard computer.
OGB11 TIL The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal was built to better connect Chicago to the Mississippi River, and was the world’s largest canal at the time. It provided engineers with the necessary experience to help construct the most pivotal infrastructure project in US history - the Panama Canal.
xkyk TIL British troops used over 72 million amphetamine tablets during WWII
Y7QvA TIL Masanobu Tsuji, a Japanese parliament member and former World War II war criminal vanished without a trace in Laos in 1961. Despite his disappearance he held his seat until 1965 when his term ended.