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TIL Memory Palace, a mnemonic device dating back to ancient times, involves associating information with specific locations in your mind. By mentally navigating these spaces, individuals enhance their memory recall

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mJrY TIL humans have a tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless data.
j6xNn TIL about Alvin “Tex” Johnson, a test pilot for Boeing who barrel rolled the 707 passenger jet prototype in 1955 over Seattle without orders. When asked he simply said: “I’m selling airplanes”.
MeQW0 TIL that the first winner of the "Computer Science Man of the Year” award was Grace Hopper in 1969, who made the first compiler and coined the term debugging after finding a moth in the computer.
wKB6 TIL in the 1960s the New York based Anarchist group “Black Mask” disrupted cultural events by handing out made up flyers of art events to the homeless with the lure of free drinks
VMprp TIL of Albert Stevens, who in 1945 was misdiagnosed as having terminal cancer and injected with plutonium isotopes as part of a radiation experiment. He survived exposure to the highest known radiation dose in any human and lived for another 20 years.