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TIL Bon Scott of AC/DC once tried to join the Australian Army, but was rejected on the grounds of being "socially maladjusted".

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b67OE TIL Raye Montague was the first person to design a ship in a computer. In 1971 Montague produced the initial draft for the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate in about 19 hours.
16rA4 TIL of Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator. When asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years 17 days & 12 hours, he replied 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said "massa, you forget de leap year", which was correct once the seconds of the leap years were added