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TIL of Promethea Pythaitha, a young genius from Montana who was profiled on the CBS show “Whiz Kids!”, and how her IQ and Greek background brought about unwanted attention, hate mail, and the death of a stalker by police.

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wL9n8 TIL the FICO credit score was started in 1989 and people used to be able to get approved for a mortgage with a letter of recommendation from their priest
M7ypb TIL about the Scottish burglar Johnny Ramensky (a.k.a. Gentleman Johnny bc he never used violence) who on being released from prison during WW2 used his safe cracking skills for the Allies to get documents from Nazi safes
nWmMb TIL that the inside of the earth isn't shaped like one ball inside the other. There are two LLSVPs similar to mountains.
1voD TIL wikipedia has a list of aircraft, aviators or air passengers who have disappeared in flight, since 1856, for reasons that have never been definitely determined.
7r7Zx TIL: Microorganisms constitute more than 90% of the biomass in the sea. It is estimated that viruses kill approximately 20% of this biomass each day, and that there are 15 times as many viruses in the oceans as there are bacteria and archaea