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TIL Bill Gates wrote the computer program to schedule students in class, and then modified the code so he would be placed in classes with mostly female students

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MKPV TIL that a convicted sex offender in Northern Ireland argued he was too fat to serve a prison sentence. The court agreed and suspended his sentence.
rRy0e TIL the bi-color parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor), found only in the Red Sea, is among the largest of parrotfishes growing to about 50 cm in length. Interestingly, it is a sequential hermaphrodite, starting first as a dark brown female and then changing to either a brightly colored male or female.
X06Mj TIL that the ancient city of Carthage practiced child sacrifice, as evidenced by the tophets, burial grounds for young children and infants.
nWGvW TIL there were more than 100 reported cases of Human Sacrifice in India between 2014 and 2021.
PY0OL TIL while recording the original Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror", James Earl Jones chewed on a cookie close to his microphone in order to get the alien drooling sounds just right for Alien Chief Serak.