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TIL Germans call mobile phones "Handies". eg Klaus gave Otto a Handy for his Birthday.

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Xm9r TIL J.R.R. Tolkien typed the entire “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy while using only two fingers. It ran to over 1,200 pages and took him 14 years.
VM5QG TIL One reason the Lockheed F-117 and the HB1001 look like retro low-poly computer models is because they literally are. In 1974 when Denys Overholser leveraged 60s Soviet algorithms to calculate radar reflection, computers weren't powerful enough to reliably perform this function on curved surfaces
yyQV TIL At JFK’s request his 19 year old mistress, Mimi Alford performed oral sex on his Special Assistant, David Powers, while JFK watched. He later apologised to them both.
KO17R TIL that Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder, lead singer, keyboardist of 1980's new wave powerhouse DEVO, was the composer for Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok soundtrack and is signed on for Thor: Love and Thunder.
xAA7 TIL that mathematician Paul Erdős published so many papers during his lifetime that there exists the Erdős number scale which measures the “collaborative distance” between Erdős and other mathematicians. Over 130,000 mathematicians have an Erdős number.