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6EL8l TIL a 9 yr old Pakistani girl, Arfa Karim, was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) until 2008. When she suffered cardiac arrest in 2011, Bill Gates assembled an international panel of doctors to advise the local physicians treating her and offered to pay for treatment in the U.S.
xV15g TIL a study found that about one in five corporate executives are psychopaths – roughly the same rate found among prisoners.
4kb1g TIL the "jellyfish effect" (or "space jellyfish") is when a rocket's high-altitude exhaust plume is illuminated by sunlight before dawn or after dusk
5Yrv9 TIL in 1979 when the Skylab re-entry approached the San Francisco Examine offered $10,000 to the first person to deliver a piece to them within 72hrs knowing it wasn't heading toward the USA. A 17yr old Aussie collected a piece, jumped on a plane with no passport or luggage and collected his prize.
wLVGM TIL Sesame Workshop stopped the distribution of a successful Sundance short film called ‘Ernest and Bertram’ that portrayed Bert and Ernie being outed to the public as gay, resulting in Ernie committing suicide.