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TIL Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and creator of the C programming language, died a week after Steve Jobs

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jNL1n TIL In the gas chambers of Auschwitz it could take between 7-20 minutes for the victims to die from the gas while they fought to get out.
Bg69b TIL that American heavy metal band Lamb Of God used the Papyrus typeface for their logo
0dB1 TIL Ketchup, both the sauce and the word, originated in China.
49r5 TIL every time Pac-Man eats a regular dot, he stops moving for one frame (1/60th of a second), slowing his progress by roughly ten percent—just enough for a following ghost to overtake him.
8aP08 TIL that having an ancestor that caught the plague and survived could result in their descendants being immune to the HIV virus