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TIL that schizophrenics are much less likely to recognize the sound of their own voice.

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Yp0QG TIL solitaire was originally included in earlier computer programs to help users strengthen their clicking and dragging skills.
Akxl TIL while looking for a lost hammer with a metal detector in 1993, a man in England found the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold ever discovered in Britain. It was worth £1.75m (£2.66m today).
0wBQR TIL about the Scientific Responsibility award that honors scientists and engineers for exemplary actions often taken at significant personal cost. One recipient was Roger Boisjoly who tried to prevent the Challenger Shuttle disaster by highlighting that the O rings could fail in cold weather.
JY4Jv TIL About the UNIVAC which was the world's first commercially available computer. It weighed 16000 pounds, used 5000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1000 calculations per second.
KYKN6 TIL when Theodore Roosevelt won the popular vote in the 1904 election, he won by the largest popular vote margin since James Monroe in 1820.