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TIL that Linus Torvalds, the creator and principal developer of Linux, first met his wife Tove while running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students in 1993. He instructed the course attendees to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date

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Lknp9 TIL that twelve quarterbacks have won multiple Super Bowls, accounting for 34/55 championships. It is much more likely that the Super Bowl will be won by a QB who has already won one, or will win one again (62%), than by a QB who will win just one in his career (38%).
l7GAB TIL that there was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.
jDwv TIL the line in Sk8er Boi, “He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?”, is voted the 4th worst lyrics of all time. (The worst is “I’m serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer”)
Brm0y TIL I learned that the Roman Empire innovated a lot and we are still using variations of those innovations today, like concrete
DQwPr TIL Shakespeare invented the name « Jessica »