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TIL the CEO of AMD (Lisa Su) is the cousin of Nvidia CEO and Co-Founder (Jensen Huang).

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vbR7 TIL Hustler Magazine owner Larry Flynt survived an attack by a serial killer, but was paralyzed from the waist down. He pleaded for his attacker to not be executed, saying “a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.
pYZoZ TIL about Amy Fisher, known in the media as the “Long Island Lolita”, who was the subject of three network movies broadcast in a 2 week span.
8aOaL TIL that flight recorders, commonly referred to as "black boxes", are actually orange!
Oog7Y TIL "Wrong Way" Corrigan "accidentally" made an unauthorized transatlantic flight from New York to Ireland instead of California claiming navigational error. Unlike Lindburgh's fancy plane, Corrigan self installed so many "ugly" extra fuel tanks he could barely fit or see out of the cockpit.
bw6E TIL India celebrates Children’s Day on November 14th, exactly 9 months after Valentines Day.