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TIL: Prison education saves the US 4 to 5 dollars for every dollar spent.

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mdap TIL a 10-year-old girl accidentally invented a molecule during her fifth grade science class.
6PPl TIL The US government is building a center to record all online information and communication on earth. It can house all the data on earth ~40 times over and is on the scale of yottabytes. 1 yottabyte=1 trillion terabytes. It is scheduled to be completed Sep. 2013
Dovp TIL when Vera Menchick competed in an international chess tournament, Albert Becker ridiculed her entry by proposing that any player she defeated should be granted membership of the “Vera Menchik Club”. He became the first member of that club, and she the first female chess world champion.
Lrpm TIL In 1986, there were plans to put Big Bird on the space shuttle, to encourage kids to get interested in space. There wasn’t enough room for the puppet, and Caroll Spinney, who portrays the 8-foot-2 bird, was replaced by a teacher. It was for a seat on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger.
ADD1a TIL that the shark in Jaws was named Bruce after Bruce Ramer, a lawyer who was representing Spielberg during the making of the film. Ramer still works in Hollywood and continues to represent celebrities like Clint Eastwood and George Clooney