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TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was less than 10 years older than John F. Kennedy...

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16p4X TIL Dennis Ritchie, who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of every software system we use on a daily basis, died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.
Okl1 TIL when reporter Jerry Mitchell went to a screening of a movie about the murder of civil rights workers in the 60s, he wondered why the suspects weren’t tried for murder. He investigated the case and discovered evidence which helped convict one of the participants for murder in 2005.
9W5r TIL Johnny Cash was the voice of the spirit guide coyote, in The Simpson’s episode where Homer eats hallucinogenic chilli.
8aADL TIL When Ian Fleming was coming up with the character of James Bond, he wanted a name which sounded bland and uninteresting. “When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, James Bond is the dullest name I ever heard.”
WrjY TIL That Kingsford Charcoal was developed from Ford Motor Company’s factory waste wood scrap