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TIL that the microcontroller inside a Macbook charger is about as powerful as the original Macintosh computer.

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P1JPw TIL of The Niagara Escarpment. The escarpment is the cliff over which the Niagara River plunges at Niagara Falls, for which it is named.
kvmE TIL in 2006, David Copperfield used slight of hand to trick armed robbers into believing he had nothing even though he was carrying his passport, wallet, and cellphone.
5ooQ TIL that a 2012 study concluded that pop music has grown louder and increasingly musically homogeneous since the mid-1960s
mPjy TIL that Elon Musk forewarned today’s failed rocket launch, stating “…Orbital Sciences… uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s…they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.”
OoxbY TIL: Many Nintendo players would blow on cartridges to get them to work but actually speed up the tarnishing due to moisture. One way to slow down the tarnishing process and extending the life of the cartridges is to use isopropyl alcohol and swabs.