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TIL of Dado Banatao. He was born in rural Philippines. He walked barefooted everyday to elementary school and used bamboo sticks to learn math. He ended up in Stanford with a Masters in EECS, developed the first computer chips, and co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics.

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Brkpk TIL Betty White was good friends with famed author John Steinbeck. White's husband Allen Ludden attended the same school as Steinbeck's wife Elaine. The couples became close friends and Steinbeck gave an early draft of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech to Ludden for his birthday.
vknR TIL a scientist invited wine experts to give their opinions on two wines: one red, and one white. In actuality, the two wines were identical, except: the “red” wine was dyed with food coloring. Not one of the 54 experts surveyed could tell it wasn’t really a red.
X0vyP TIL: the cover of Caldor's 1998 "Toy Book" holiday ad featured two boys playing Scrabble. One of the words on the board was "RAPE."
m1mnP TIL the CIA once called an assassination team the Health Alteration Committee to "incapacitate" an Iraqi Colonel
JYEJ4 TIL Coca Cola's secret ingredients were revealed to a rabbi in 1935 so he could certify it as kosher.