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TIL that Bill Gates tweaked his school’s program’s code so that he was placed in class with mostly female students.

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nW7Eo TIL JFK Jr's nickname, "John-John", was because a reporter misheard JFK calling him "John" twice in quick succession and the name was not used by his family.
Yr9x TIL Chairman Mao told the Japanese PM in 1972 not to apologise for what Japan did in WW2 because they destroyed the Nationalists and helped them come to power.
Z8aPB TIL if you’re trying to kill yourself the odds are against you. On average there are 25 attempts at suicide for every single success. The elderly are more successful at 4:1. While for younger folks (aged 15 - 24), the odds are between 100 and 200 to 1 against.
rR1Ex TIL a rodent that was believed to be extinct for 113 years casually showed up on the handrail at the front porch of an ecolodge in Colombia and let researchers photograph it for two hours before disappearing into the night, after which it was never seen again
8eJBP TIL ; This Canadian man won a global art prize in 1876. When the judges found out he was Black, they tried to reverse it