TIL the world's first hard drive, the IBM 350, was introduced in 1956. It was leased to companies for $37,600/month (adjusted to 2024), weighed one ton, and held 3.75 MB, about the size of a small PDF file.
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Submitted October 11, 2024 at 09:29AM by AnthillOmbudsman
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Computing History 1956 The First Moving Head Hard Disk Drive
A brief history and denoscription of IBM's RAMAC 305 and 350 Disk File - the world's first hard disk drive, along with a YouTube video showing them in operation.
TIL the air force has a program in place that will keep B-52 bombers flying for over a hundred years since they were manufactured
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Submitted October 11, 2024 at 03:10PM by superanth
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Defense News
The new B-52: How the Air Force is prepping to fly century-old bombers
A $48.6 billion overhaul of the B-52 is intended to keep it flying until about 2060, and part of a two-bomber fleet with the B-21.
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TIL no film has ever won all four acting awards at the Oscars (Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, & Best Supporting Actress) and only three films have ever won three out of the four: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Network (1976), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
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/Film
Can A Film Ever Win All Four Acting Oscars? An Investigation
Three times the Academy has come close to awarding a film in all four acting categories, but something stopped them short. Here, we investigate why.
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TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
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Shibboleth
word or phrase that distinguishes one group of people from another
TIL: Former Red Ranger, from Power Rangers : Wild Force, is in jail over murdering his roommate with a sword. The argument involved his girlfriend.
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Submitted October 11, 2024 at 06:50PM by Flares117
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BBC News
Ex-Power Ranger Ricardo Medina is sentenced to six years for killing his roommate
Actor Ricardo Medina stabbed his roommate Joshua Sutter to death with a sword two years ago.
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TIL that pirates and buccaneers sometimes engaged in "matelotage", a practice in which male couples would agree to share their incomes and inherit their partner's property in the case of their death.
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Matelotage
union between two adult pirates
TIL Four of the last 7 Illinois Govenors have been jailed
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Submitted October 11, 2024 at 07:40PM by FrontRowKate
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Future Hindsight
4 of Illinois's Last 7 Governors Were Jailed. Why? — Future Hindsight
Our newest episode with David Greising of The Better Government Association really opened our eyes to the impact of investigating, and the role …
TIL In 2000, three Scottish sisters took out a 1 million pound insurance policy in the event one of them immaculately conceived the second coming of Christ. They paid £100 a year until 2006 when the insurance company canceled the policy.
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Submitted October 11, 2024 at 07:58PM by Ill_Definition8074
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BBC NEWS | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Sisters lose second coming cover
Insurers withdraw the cover taken out by three sisters in case one immaculately conceived through the second coming of Christ.
TIL that the torpedoed rms lusitania sank in broad daylight within sight of the coast in just 18 minutes, killing 1197 people.
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Submitted October 11, 2024 at 09:58PM by -benyeahmin-
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Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
1915 World War I maritime disaster
TIL near the end of her life, Ada Lovelace had a religious transformation and began to repent the conduct of her life. After confessing something to her husband 3 months before her death, he abandoned her bedside. It is not known what she told him.
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Ada Lovelace
English mathematician (1815–1852)
TIL the "S" in "Harry S. Truman" wasn't an abbreviation. The dude's middle name was literally just the letter S.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly in 1945 as the 34th…
TIL that sugar isn’t directly bad for your teeth, but rather it creates the perfect environment for bacteria in your mouth to thrive, and they produce acid as a byproduct which IS bad for your teeth.
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Vineyard Dental & Orthodontics
Why Sugar is the Enemy: How It Contributes to Tooth Decay? | Blog
Learn ow sugary foods and drinks contribute to cavities. Find a dentist in Paso Robles, CA, for preventive care and treatment at Vineyard Dental & Orthodontics.
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TIL 2024 is the year the US Dept of Health and Human Services banned hospitals from performing non-consensual breast, pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” by medical students and practitioners on patients under anesthesia.
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Submitted October 12, 2024 at 01:21AM by emath113
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Pelvic examinations under anesthesia by medical students without consent
medical education controversy
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TIL a clown saved 300 children during the deadliest avalanche in history. Only 400 people survived out of around 18,000 in the town of Yungay, Peru. The children were attending a circus and a clown led them to higher ground moments before the avalanche destroyed the entire town.
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1970 Huascarán debris avalanche
including Glacier 511
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Today I learned Dana Carvey underwent heart bypass surgery for a blocked coronary artery, but the surgeon operated on the wrong artery. Eventually he won a lawsuit against the hospital and won 7.5 million dollars, all of which was donated to charity.
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TIL During a 6-mo period, 2,055 Brown Recluse spiders were collected in a 19th-century-built home in Lenexa, KS. Estimates show that at least 400 spiders were large enough to cause envenomation. A family of 4 had been living there since 1996 and had never been bit despite seeing them multiple times.
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OUP Academic
An Infestation of 2,055 Brown Recluse Spiders (Araneae: Sicariidae) and No Envenomations in a Kansas Home: Implications for Bite…
Abstract. During a 6-mo period, 2,055 brown recluse spiders, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik, were collected in a 19th-century-built, currently occup
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TIL a neutrino could pass through a lightyear of lead before it has a 50% chance of hitting a lead atom.
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Submitted October 12, 2024 at 03:16AM by oneMorbierfortheroad
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Astronomy Magazine
Ghost particles caught streaming from dust-shrouded black hole
The IceCube observatory in Antarctica has captured the best evidence yet that the galactic core of M77 is producing neutrinos.
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TIL that with an IQ of over 200 Christopher Langan has been called one of the world’s smartest men. He worked as a bouncer for over 20 years, has completed no major academic pursuits, and believes 9/11 was a false flag meant to distract the public from his mathematical theory proving God’s existence
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Christopher Langan
American horse rancher and author who scored high on IQ tests
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TIL while laying underwater cable in the Chicago river a diver discovered a 40ft submarine. Inside he found the remains of a human and a dog. Their identity is still a mystery more than a century later.
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Submitted October 12, 2024 at 06:54AM by kelddel
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WTTW Chicago
What was the sunken vessel at the bottom of the Chicago River? | Chicago Mysteries with Geoffrey Baer
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TIL Catherine O’Hara (Moira from Shitt’s Creek) has reversed internal organs, a condition known as situs inversus
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Submitted October 12, 2024 at 12:43PM by CinnamonDish
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Catherine O'Hara
Canadian-American actress
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TIL that in 1853, linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton disguised himself as a Muslim and made the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca which is required of all Muslims. He later wrote a book about his experiences.
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Submitted October 12, 2024 at 04:41PM by CatPooedInMyShoe
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