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TIL of Tillie Anderson; the Swedish seamstress-turned-undisputed women’s cycling champion of the 1890s, who won all but seven of her 130 races before women’s races ceased in 1902. She was inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2000, 35 years after her death at age 90.

wL0Y1 TIL Cyber Philosopher Jaron Lanier proposed a 'reverse Moore's Law': As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. The larger a software program gets the more legacy code gums up its efficiency.
w1mJ TIL That a man named Sir Nicholas Winton organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II. Him at a ceremony surrounded by those he saved.[VIDEO]
Lkx1v TIL: That in 2018, James Cordier from optionssellers.com lost the entire $150 million hedge fund he managed making a bad play on natural gas and crude oil. He didn't hedge properly and lost everything. He put out this apology video, offering to buy clients lunch. He forgot to take off his Rolex.
RGE8 TIL “Confirmation bias” is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s preexisting beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.
kRde TIL the first person to circumnavigate the world was most likely Ferdinand Magellan’s slave Enrique of Malacca, who was born in Malaysia