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TIL CAPTCHA is an acronym: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”

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8amda TIL researchers modeled a system where the Peter Principle holds true and found that instead of promoting the best employees until they reach a level where they stop performing competently, it's more efficient for a company to promote employees at random. For this research they won an Ig Nobel.
7rxNb TIL Since Michael Jackson didn't know how to read music or play an instrument he would compose songs inside of his head and then beatbox them to other musicians.
6nNw TIL: Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year
5YQ5Q TIL of US president Grover Cleveland's wife. She was the youngest first lady, the first to be married in the White House, and the first to give birth while her husband was president. Grover met her shortly after she was born, when he was 27.
16pEO TIL that the only time a federal agency has raided another is when the FBI and EPA raided the Department of Energy while investigating environmental crimes related to nuclear weapons production