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TIL The ZIP in ZIP Code stands for Zone Improvement Plan
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TIL Wendy Carlos (who composed for Kubrick’s movies) built her own computer in 1953, 23 years before the Apple I. She was 14.
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TIL Colonel Sanders was in a shootout with a local rival who killed a bystander. With his competitor convicted of murder, Sanders’ first restaurant lost its competition.
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TIL Stephen Colbert went head to head with the resident Tolkien expert on the set of The Hobbit in a Tolkien trivia contest and won
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TIL The high-pitched sounds housecats make to solicit food may mimic the cries of a hungry human infant, making them particularly hard for humans to ignore
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TIL that rationing improved the health of British people during WWII because they ate a more varied diet with less fat and sugar