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TIL in 1990, composer Leonard Bernstein has left a password-protected memoir. To this day, no one has been able to break the password.

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JYVQm TIL there is a group of scam baiters who turn the tables on the people who send out scam emails. In one case, they convinced a Nigerian scammer to travel 700 miles to Arabic-speaking Chad even though he didn't speak the language and didn't have enough money to make his way back home.
VM78k TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of applicants with perfect SAT scores. The percentage of students who took the SAT and got a perfect SAT score is less than 1%.
YMnr TIL: Table Knives are rounded instead of pointed to prevent people from picking their teeth and from stabbing each other
v1mmD Today I learned head on train collisions were staged for entertainment in the early 1900’s.
m1wJR TIL in 2021, a single deli shop in New Jersey that was publicly traded managed to achieve a market capitalization of over $100 million despite doing only $35,000 in sales across two years. The deli's largest shareholder was the wrestling coach of the high school next door.