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TIL There's a family where every member has 12 fingers

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rN1d4 TIL about Ashok Khemka, an IAS officer (Indian Civil Service bureaucrat), who has been transferred 54 times in 29 years by state governments, because he keeps exposing corruption.
djYr TIL The highest quality software ever written was the code for the space shuttle, with 1 error for every 420,000 lines of code.
nVOP TIL Queen Isabella I of Spain, who funded Columbus’s voyage, only bathed twice in her life.
4BJX TIL that before it became Islam’s holiest site, the Ka’ba housed pagan idols from all over the region and helped one family monopolize trade on the Arab Peninsula since members of every religion took pilgrimages to visit it
QJwDX TIL Taxi Driver (1976) was made with a low budget of only $1.9 million. Robert De Niro & Cybill Shepherd received only $35k for the film while Scorsese received only $65k. Despite the low budget, it went on to receive 4 nominations at the 1977 Academy Awards.