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TIL that someone anonymously donated over $200 million to Berkeley for their Data Science program. It was the largest donation in the UC campus’s history.

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4XxAw TIL, about Joan Struthers Curran who, developed Chaff used to disguise where the D Day invasion was going to happen, but was never awarded a Degree in her time "because women were simply not granted degrees". Remarkable
Rj7a TIL that a fast-food chain in the US once made a “Third-Pounder” sandwich priced the same as a competing McDonalds “Quarter-Pounder”, but it failed spectacularly because people assumed ¼ was larger than 1/3
Wyv4 TIL: The TV series “Gargoyles” was voiced largely by former Star Trek cast members.
BrZDW TIL donations made by Jewish people often contain the number 18 (like $20.18), or are multiples of 18 (like $108.00). It's called “giving Chai”.
k6AB TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows Vista, because the original code was written by an outside company and Microsoft couldn’t find the collision detector in the code!