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TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)

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EgQm0 TIL in World War II several U.S railroad companies sponsored military “railway battalions” to help with the war effort. Company bosses became military officers and 1000’s of American railroad employees joined the effort throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
glwX TIL that between 2003 and 2008, the US government spent over $15,000,000,000 on AIDS prevention in Africa, saving an estimated 1.1 million lives and reducing AIDS infection rates by 10%
Gw7g TIL there is a secured village in the Netherlands specifically for people with dementia, where they can act out a normal life while being monitored and assisted by caretakers in disguise.
p8DXp TIL that Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, had sex for the first time on her mother's grave
KKyG TIL that Chris Brown, Mike Tyson, and Dog the Bounty Hunter have all been banned from entering the UK.