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TIL that Bill Gate's first attempt at a software program was a version of Tic-Tac-Toe that allowed users to compete with a computer

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D1k0j TIL of the time Richard Branson flew a fake UFO over London with a fake alien.
kJBbW TIL that, although most people associate the character of Igor (or Ygor) as Dr. Frankenstein's hunchbacked lab assistant, the character did not appear in the original 1931 film. The hunchbacked assistant was named Fritz. In the original novel, Dr. Frankenstein doesn't even have an assistant.
QJLn9 TIL that there is a movement in journalism to move away from “if it bleeds it leads”. In the past, crises and conflicts were reported as-is, but journalists in this movement are also reporting on options, solutions, and ways in which things could and are getting better.
JYbem TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. won a Grammy at the 13th Grammy Awards in 1971. That is one more than Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj.
lA41 TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested a total of 66 times for protesting and acts of civil disobedience - most recently in 2007 for trespassing at a Nevada nuclear test facility.