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TIL of Gennady Korotkevich, currently the world's top competitive programmer, derived Archimedes theory of buoyancy in a national programming competition in his 2nd grade.

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lo407 TIL the small town of Tanner, Alabama has the distinction of being hit by two F5 tornadoes within a 30 minutes timeframe. On the night of April 3, 1974, rescuers in Tanner were busy searching for victims of the first twister when they were surprised by a second which wiped out the rest of the town
owk7 TIL on May 19 2011, South Korea passed a bill that doesn’t allow children under 16 to play video games from 10:30 P.M. to 6:00 A.M
8aXOK TIL that Constantine V of the Byzantine Empire (r. 741-775) was so loved for his ability as a general that following the defeat of the Byzantine army by the Bulgarians at the battle of Pliska in 811, a group of soldiers broke into his tomb and begged his corpse to come back and lead them again.
pYN44 TIL The second longest-lived British head of state after Elizabeth II is Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) whose "reign" lasted 9 months but lived to be 85
0dg41 TIL That Woody Harrelsons father was a hitman who was responsible for killing a federal judge. This judge was also the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. The previous was in 1867.