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TIL, Ohio was the birthplace of the first people to fly in a plane, the first man on the moon, and 24 astronauts

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6E588 TIL suicides news can affect people with depression, specially if the suicidal was a relative or someone famous. The suicide rate has increased by 10% after the death of Robin Williams.
dDO7 TIL Bill Murray’s brother, Brian Doyle-Murray, voice acts Captain K'nuckles from misadventures of Flapjack and The Flying Dutchman from spongebob.
epBL6 TIL the term “debugging” comes from an incident that occurred while Grace Hopper was working on the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II. A moth flew into the computer and was electrocuted to death. Hopper literally had to “debug” the computer which is where the term came from.
bNXp TIL that Marie Curie is the only person to ever win Nobel prizes in two different areas of science
egY6 TIL that a man tried to cash a cheque he got in some junk mail for $95,000 and the bank did it!