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TIL that school administrators let 16-year old Bill Gates write the computer code to schedule their students in classes. He modified the code so he was placed with “a disproportionate number of interesting girls”.

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Kr86 TIL In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built.
xpgD TIL The video Ipod single-handedly saved “The Office”. The show was about to get canceled but NBC struck a deal with Apple in which all new Ipods came pre-loaded with the Christmas Special episode. Resulting in The Office shooting to the top of the Itunes charts and ultimately running for 9 seasons.
jNrVR TIL that one of the most complex Chinese characters, requiring 58 strokes in its traditional form, represents the syllable "biáng", used in the name for a type of noodles. It is so complex that it is missing from most modern dictionaries and is not encoded in Unicode.
69QDY TIL in 1895 a judge awarded nothing beyond burial costs to the parents of a two year old killed by the Southern Railway Company of Georgia, due to the child being too young to have any "earning capacity" of it's own.
wLvkP TIL the Albanian government scammed its citizens multiple times with pyramid schemes, sparking civil war in 1997