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TIL that a London photo developer destroyed all but 11 of the only photos of the June 6th DDay on Omaha Beach. The surviving shots are called the The Magnificent Eleven and inspired the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan

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OnBR TIL Bill Gates was recruited to write the class scheduling software for his high school. He used that power to place himself in classes with more female students.
69AlZ TIL that an AI that is trained to guessing couples based on pictures and maybe voice samples and digital footprints sounds like a good idea. Could that be a matchmaking ai that is not prefect but a quantum leap better then tinder and everything we have?
rNL80 TIL Bride Price (dowry) was paid if a man slept with a virgin woman and for her to be his bride, is still practiced today in Asia, Europe and some parts of Africa.
MeJ50 TIL A Washington man sued his local sheriff’s department for violating his Fourth Amendment right against unlawful search and seizure after they searched his house thinking it was robbed, found out it was the wrong one, then told him he was lucky he wasn’t shot.
WkGG8 TIL the song Tomorrow from the musical Annie was originally written for a musical production of the classic novel Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes but then switched.