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TIL that drew barrymores grandfathers corpse was stolen from the morgue to attend one last poker party...what?

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dD8BB TIL about ASCII, a character encoding standard for electronic communication. In 1968, president Lyndon B. Johnson mandated that all computers purchased by the United States Federal Government support ASCII. It remained the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until 2007.
9YBjB TIL that in 1890, an 8-year-old boy named Henry James Bristow saved his 3-year-old sister's life by tearing off her clothing when she caught on fire. She had knocked over a paraffin lamp on the mantlepiece. Henry was severely burnt in the process and later died of his injuries.
O4OL [TIL] The Mormon Church donates only about 0.7 percent of its annual income to charity. LDS Church is likely worth $40 billion today and collects up to $8 billion in tithing each year.
QNLEp TIL Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, the person who played the child in "Boyhood," uses the singular they pronoun and rejects the gender binary. "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play."
XE4g6 TIL in 1982, the CIA successfully tricked the Soviet Union into stealing sabotaged software that oversaw pump valves in gas lines. The CIA used it to close off a massive Soviet gas line, leading to a massive pressure build up and “the most monumental non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space.”