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TIL the Cofounder of CPAC Led a Double Life as a Promiscuous Homosexual Who Died of AIDS

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9Yx1G TIL that Richard Feynman created an assembly line of female mathematicians to simulate a computer during the Manhattan Project because the actual computers from IBM were delayed in arriving to Los Alamos. Turns out their "system" could calculate just as fast (just not round-the-clock).
aw6NL TIL that the slogan "when it rains it pours" is advertising the fact that that Morton Salt has a moisture-absorbing additive which keeps salt flowing freely even when the humidity is high
mxkPy TIL that almost 4,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian teachers used red ink to correct spelling mistakes, just like today.
kO1Zd TIL a student at the University of Michigan changed his official preferred pronoun to “his majesty” in order to protest the policy.
b6eO9 TIL Brumotactillophobia is the term for the phobia of different foods touching each other, a usual occurrence in the OCD experience.