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OD9X TIL that Mark Twain hated Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”: “Every time I read [it] I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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.
R7rxw TIL If you shuffle a deck of cards perfectly (aka "a Faro shuffle") eight consecutive times, it will return to its original state
neOjY TIL there were 53 extras in the 1993 film Philadelphia with AIDS or were HIV positive, and 43 of them had died by the end of 1994. During his Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Actor, Tom Hanks paid tribute to the courage and humanity of one extra named Mark Sorensen.
D1APr TIL about Apophis (Egyptian god of death and darkness), an asteroid that will pass earth closer than our own satellites orbit on Friday 13th, 2029. It will touch our atmosphere, and we will be able to see it wiz overhead. There is a debated chance of it impacting Earth when it returns in 2036.