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TIL, audio content (or computer data) that was normally expected to use audio cassettes for early computers was also distributed on vinyl record type media too.

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bbA7 TIL that the most senior officer to survive the sinking of Titanic, Charles Lightoller, went onto serve in World War I where he rammed a German U-boat as commander of HMS Garry, and helped evacuate British soldiers from Dunkirk in World War II
4kmj5 TIL Marilyn Monroe was instrumental in kickstarting Ella Fitzgerald's career. A 1950's nightclub owner was reluctant to hire an overweight black singer until Monroe intervened saying if he did, she would sit in the front row every night. Once Ella was hired, Marilyn sat in front row for weeks
e0B64 TIL that Generation Y is making 20% less than Baby Boomers were at the same age
Y9ZA TIL scientists estimate only 14% of the 10-14 million species on earth have been documented and over earths history there have been 5 billion different species.
J1MAQ TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life.