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TIL Nvidia A $3T Company Was Created In A Denny's Booth

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WkpWB TIL that Hanns Scharff, German Luftwaffe's "master interrogator," instead of physical torture on POWs used techniques like nature walks, going out for a pleasant lunch, and swimming where the subject would reveal information on their own. He helped shape US interrogation techniques after the war.
EMvd TIL the line “Ideas are peaceful, history is violent” in Fury was ad-libbed by Brad Pitt.
4kXAg TIL That The Bing Crosby Laboratories and a research team funded by Crosby created the first videotape recorder (VTR).
wL6JY TIL Oscar nominated actor Lew Ayres declared himself a conscientious objector and served as a medic in WWII. He donated all of the money he earned as a serviceman to the American Red Cross.
v1Kdx TIL that anti-margarine Senator Gordon Roselip incorrectly identified margarine as butter in a blind taste test. His wife later confessed that she had been feeding him margarine and telling him that it was butter.