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TIL Nixon Thought LBJ Taped His Campaign Plane in 1968

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aw7lo TIL That when the Pope dies, he is smacked in the head with a gilded silver hammer to make sure he is dead.
16l68 TIL that Connecticut-born Ann Petry was the first African-American woman to sell over 1 million copies of a book with her 1946 novel The Street.
Oo8Ee TIL The US Department of Defense created a supercomputer using 1,760 PS3 consoles. Compared to other supercompuing systems at the time, it cost 90-95% less to build and required only one tenth of the power to operate
N7vmQ TIL that although being a famous runaway wedding destination the Scottish town of Gretna Green has the dubious honour of holding the worst rail disaster in British History. With the precise death toll never established (but believed to be 226) those killed were mainly heading for Gallipoli.
Y7D4r TIL that Komodo dragons originated in Australia