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TIL 3 Jewish Prisoners escaped Auschwitz in a stolen car while dressed as S.S guards

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1jkX TIL of Hofstadter’s Law which states “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
6EEPw TIL that there is a Capability Im-Maturity Model, a classification for software organizations who don't measure up to CMM Level 1
b6pe7 TIL that 70 year old Robert Maudsley has been kept in a solitary confinement cell designed specifically for him since 1983, after committing three murders while already locked up for that same crime
nrxP TIL that some countries, in the 70s, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, and the Netherlands, cassette data storage was so popular that some radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record onto cassette and then load into their computer.
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