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TIL there were more murders in Chicago in 2016 than the entire United Kingdom

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grLG4 TIL about James Croll, a real life Good Will Hunting, who used his library access while working as a janitor at Andersonian University to teach himself physics and astronomy, and then published a revolutionary theory explaining the negative feedback loop that causes ice ages.
b99D0 TIL where Nachos came from... invented in 1943 by Ignacio Anaya, and the ballpark cheese-sauce version was created by Arlington Stadium employee Frank Liberto, who recently passed.
v5Ox TIL Most of the developed world uses Chip and PIN credit cards, except for the U.S. which uses Swipe and Sign which is far less secure
W79r8 TIL That Grace Hopper, one of the very first women to ever work on a computer, came-up with the idea of using regular, English words to program a computer, due to her post-WWII experience trying to sell computers to the general public.
jNEPp TIL that Royal Navy Submarines will, to this day, fly the Jolly Roger when returning to port. This is in response to an Admiral declaring that submarines were “underhanded, unfair and damned un-English” and all submariners should be “hung as pirates”