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TIL: That orange-fleshed sweetpotato is good for healthy babies

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16p4X TIL Dennis Ritchie, who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of every software system we use on a daily basis, died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.
nMJG TIL “American” is an ethnicity, and according to the 2000 US Census, an increasing number of people are identifying with it.
BrdQW TIL that North-Korea still has not payed Sweden for the 600 volvos they bought in 1971
LkOWV TIL in 2013 a Verizon programmer was found outsourcing his work to a Chinese company for less than 20% of his salary and spending his "workday" surfing the Internet. The Chinese code was so good that the programmer was regarded as the best in his department of Verizon.
XKNR TIL sliced bread was first sold in 1928, marketed as “The greatest thing since wrapped bread”