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TIL Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper, he used to sneak into a colleague’s office after work to play.

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Br1Nr TIL there is currently no known way to use speech recognition successfully on a whispering person, as the characteristic spectral range needed to detect syllables and words is not given through the total absence of tone
KYjnE TIL Of Menocchio, a 16th century miller who was tried for heresy. He though religion was a fraud, didn't believe Jesus was a god and had his own cosmology, according to which "the world came from chaos, just like cheese comes from milk" and humans were like worms is the cosmic cheese
1ared TIL An increasing number of schools and companies in Japan encourage their students and employees to cry as a way of relieving stress and improving mental health. There are also people who are called "namida sensei" meaning "tears teacher"
QJ5Va TIL: Cheng Chui Ping, also known as Sister Ping, ran a human smuggling empire and is widely regarded as the most prolific smuggler of the 20th century. She ran her operation between Hong Kong and New York City from 1984 until 2000. The FBI still doesn't know how many people she smuggled into the US.
e0Qv5 TIL that in 1973 a Mercedes-Benz 770 F-Cabriolet that was stated to be Hitler's parade limousine was sold for a then record of $153,000. A week later it was revealed to have belonged to Finnish President Carl Mannerheim, but this news was ignored, and the car broke the record again half a year later