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TIL a singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945

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loEdV TIL about Haing S. Ngor - a Cambodian doctor who was sent to a Khmer Rouge concentration camp in 1975, was tortured for 4 years, escaped in 1979, won an Oscar in 1985, wrote an acclaimed memoir in 1988, started a charity in 1990, and was murdered by an LA gang in 1996.
W7Oa4 TIL that at the height of her career, a rumor circulated that Shirley Temple was not a child, but a 30 year-old dwarf (due to her stocky body type). The rumor became so prevalent, that the Vatican sent a priest to investigate whether she was indeed a child
4XBya TIL the game Chinese Checkers is neither Chinese nor Checkers
5VAQR TIL that Ann Margret, the famous singer, dancer and actress from the 60s, was of Swedish descent and emigrated to the US in 1946 with the family not knowing a word of English.
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