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TIL the creator of WinRar, Ron Dwight, passed away in 2002.
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TIL the pilot for "E.R." was originally written back in 1974 as a film screenplay
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TIL that the role of Connie in Saturday Night Fever is Fran Drescher's first credited film role.
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TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life.
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TIL data centres use an estimated 200 terawatt hours (TWh) each year. That is more than the national energy consumption of some countries.
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TIL that the Quaker Oats Company and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed to pay $1.85-million to settle a federal lawsuit over an experiment in which radioactive oatmeal was fed to boys at a state institution in the 1940s and 1950s.