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xrNg TIL Google hires programmers through their own search engine
698ol TIL Jasmin Paris this year became the first woman ever to finish the Barklay Marathons within the 60 hours time limit.
9wrop TIL that Wilhem Keital, chief of the German high command during WW2, was an uncle of Katherine Oppenheimer. This would make him the uncle in law of Robert Oppenheimer.
ANLEn TIL that Stephen Lee was one of three anti-Apartheid activists who escaped from Pretoria Prison in 1979. In 1980, the warden in charge that night was put on trial for aiding their escape. Lee wrote a letter to a South African newspaper proclaiming his innocence. The warden was eventually acquitted.
6EllZ TIL that the US first used gas chambers to execute prisoners in 1924, 15 years before Nazi Germany. In 2015, Oklahoma introduced nitrogen gas as an alternative execution method.