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TIL Upton Sinclair, author of "The Jungle", was the Democrat nominee for governor of California in the 1934 election

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MbGA TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis, while playing Hamlet, collapsed, sobbing uncontrollably, during the scene where the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears. He later said that he saw the ghost of his own father, and has not appeared on stage since then.
dAV8 TIL that CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
gM4Qy TIL over 80% of the losses by Bernie Madoff's victims were recovered.
9Ler TIL that one reason whales have become the largest animals ever is because their biggest predator, the 50 ft Megaladon Shark, became extinct at the beginning of the current Ice Age
pYyO4 TIL - Computers were people (mostly women) up until WWII. Teams of people, often women from the late nineteenth century onwards, were used to undertake long and often tedious calculations.