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R5LZ8 TIL The First Lady of the United States, Lou Henry Hoover, became the first woman to receive a degree in geology from Stanford University.
v1Nd8 TIL that Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston made a video guide for Microsoft about how to use Windows 95
4X5lJ TIL about Vozrozhdeniya, an island in the Aral Sea that was a Soviet bio weapons testing facility. In 1988 the Soviets dumped 100-200 tons of anthrax and bleach there. They also buried hundreds of infected animals and abandoned labs. It is one of the deadliest places on Earth.
nkwd TIL that there are children in Japan that can do massive calculations in seconds with a purely imaginary abacus, where it looks like they are manipulating nothing but air.
9llQ TIL Teller (from Penn & Teller) began his silence during his youth when performing for college fraternities. He found that if he was silent, they would stop throwing beer and focus on his act.