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TIL by the age of 13, legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, won the weekly amateur contest at the Apollo Theater so many times that he was eventually barred from entering.

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mxBlp TIL that Britain's worst nuclear accident, would have been much worse, were it not for Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. Whom insisted on installing filters onto the exhaust shaft of the Windscale Nuclear Power Plant. When the accident happened the radioactive dust was reduced by 95%.
kOpXm TIL that the Lumière brothers, the inventors of motion picture, once said that "the cinema is an invention without any future" and gave up on the technology to go back to focusing on photography, so their involvement in the early history of film was quite brief
5Y0YB TIL "Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims" by Sarah Winnemucca published in 1883 is the first known autobiography written by a Native American woman
1a178 TIL that when cyber criminals made off with $81m (and almost got away with $1bn), Bangladesh Bank was using second-hand switches worth $10 and had no firewalls in place.
oB4Ar TIL that aspirin can be fatal to dogs, and that Benadryl can safely be used as an over-the-counter tranquilizer for dogs.