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TIL There exist lists for College Professors to know which references their students will be too young to get

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0pN1 TIL that Jonathan Hyde, famous for playing British roles in Jumanji, Titanic, The Mummy, and Richie Rich, is actually Australian.
160D4 TIL: Unemployment Insurance (USA): Estimated Amount of Fraud: $100+ Billion. Check That Your SSN wasn't stolen.
YpOlx TIL that suicide rates are alarmingly high among gender nonconforming individuals. 50.8% of female to male persons have attempted suicide, 41.8% among those identifying as non binary, and 29.9% among male to female.
mxGvE TIL that Marlon Brando tried to purchase the rights to a movie about the Iran-Contra scandal using a former CIA connection. The CIA was able to derail this by creating a front company to outbid Brando for the rights. The man they put in charge of this operation was none other than Col. Oliver North
nW97B TIL the first digital computer, ENIAC, was programmed by six women in the 1940s. Fran Bilas, Betty Jennings, Ruth Lichterman, Kay McNulty, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff's contributions were overlooked for decades. Their pioneering work laid the foundation for modern computing.