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TIL the odds of you being born are at least 1 in 400 trillion

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LPEm TIL Pixar Animation Director Andrew Gordon found a secret room connected to his office via a crawlable air duct. He turned it into a speakeasy that eventually entertained celebrity guests such as Steve Jobs, Buzz Aldrin, and Robert DeNiro.
epkOb TIL about the Gaelic Celtic tradition of Keening, a verbal singing and mourning for the dead
oRpyY Today I learned that Charles Foussard spent 70 years and 303 days in custody in Ararat, Victoria (Australia) between 1903 and 1974 for killing an old man and stealing his boots, making him the prisoner with the longest effective incarceration. He died while still incarcerated.
JXkm TIL that a man and woman, who had just met minutes before, had sex in the middle of a shopping mall. The woman was given a ticket and the man was arrested and taken to jail.
JY6X1 TIL: The graphics company Nvidia is named after the Latin ‘invidia’, which means 'envy’. This is also the reason why they use the color green, as in “green with envy”.