In 1956, the IBM 350 hard disk drive had 3.75 MB of storage, weighed over 2000 lbs, had to be moved around with forklifts, and was delivered via large cargo airplanes.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The rarest motorcycle in the world was found behind a brick wall in Chicago and has engine technologies well ahead of its time. The “Traub” is still running to this day.
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Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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