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TIL that Dame Judi Dench has photographic memory and can recite entire Shakespeare plays from memory.

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O4Vg TIL that for hundreds of years, “Computer” was a job title for a person who did math problems all day.
pYm58 TIL Partially because of the generation that grew up on Jurassic Park becoming Paleontologists in large numbers about one new species of dinosaur is discovered every week
7rnXp TIL of Federal Express Flight 705. In April 1994, a disgruntled, suicidal employee tried to hijack and down the plane, brutally attacking the crew with a hammer. The wounded captain put the DC-10 in a dive and rolled it to incapacitate the attacker before landing successfully.
dDrl8 TIL in the US there are 24 Tri-state, 28 Twin-city, 25 Tri-city and 5 Quad-city areas.
gleA TIL that according to the FBI Director, the FBI is having a hard time filling positions to help tackle cyber crimes because a lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.