In 1969, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission made history by landing humans on the Moon. But what’s mind-blowing is the technology they used: the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) had a clock speed of just 1.024 MHz and 4KB of RAM. To compare: the av...
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You’ve heard it a hundred times: “Please switch your device to airplane mode.” But have you ever wondered what actually happens if you don’t? Airplane mode disables your phone’s ability t...
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Before the World Wide Web, there was ARPANET — the U.S. government-funded project that laid the foundation for the modern internet. In its early days, the network was small and experimental…...
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In the annals of bizarre military history, few episodes are as strangely comical as the Great Emu War of 1932. Yes, this really happened: the Australian government sent soldiers armed with m...
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Hey, hi! The other day I heard about this "Pink Moon" and I was wondering... what exactly is it? It's not really a pink moon, is it? It sounds a bit strange! Well, the "Pink Moon" isn't a...
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