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TIL Albert Einstein once needed a letter of recommendation from Madame Curie to secure a job.

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jNLpn TIL About Ibrahim Hamato, a para table tennis player who reached the paralympics of Rio 2016 playing with his mouth, as he has no arms.
5Vx8Q TIL the term leap year probably comes from the fact that a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar normally advances one day of the week from one year to the next, but the day of the week in the 12 months following the leap day will advance two days due to the extra day, thus leaping over one day.
gM8jL TIL the 1972 film Deliverance brought a surge of whitewater rafting tourists to Rabun County, Georgia, where the movie was filmed. It is now a $20 million per year industry in the region.
gVrW TIL that Wikipedia is “close to the level of accuracy in Encyclopedia Britannica”, with a similar rate of “serious errors”
woXXP TIL Elliott Smith's seminal album "Figure 8" has a title track, originally released only in Japan - ironically, unlike all 16 tracks from Smith's fifth release, it wasn't written by him. The song is part of Bob Dorough's "Schoolhouse Rock!" educational series released in 1973.