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TIL: All Potatoes originated near modern day Peru

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RRaj TIL Bob Ross was an Air Force First Sergeant and decided to speak quietly after his service ended. Happy Birthday Bob!
dD4r9 TIL about TK, a boy who experienced total brain death at age 4 but was kept alive for another 20 years. His body grew as he aged but he never regained awareness. His autopsy showed nothing recognizable as brain.
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oBoV8 TIL that Phil Zimmerman, the developer of PGP, named the symmetric-key cipher of PGP v1.0 as "BassOmatic", based on a Dan Aykroyd SNL skit involving a blender and a whole fish to illustrate that the BassOmatic algorithm does to data what the original BassOmatic did to the fish