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TIL IBM donated an International Translator System for use at the Nuremberg Trials, which brought the trial to life through simultaneous interpretation of English, Russian, French, and German delivered to 600 headsets with five audio channels. Later, IBM sold the proven system to the United Nations.

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ne1XW TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to space walk, became in June 2020 the only person to have visited both space and the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
ZeX4 TIL that actor Jack Nicholson didn’t find out until his mid thirties that his “parents” were actually his grandparents and his “sister” was his mother
DbVJ TIL Nelson Mandela phoned Richard Branson asking for Bransons help as a large health club chain needed rescuing or thousands of jobs would be lost. Today, Virgin Active South Africa has 133 locations. More clubs than any other country.
nWBYo TIL Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer fame) is a hobbyist programmer, who owns both a GitHub account and a Discord server.
gX9L TIL that there is a Heavy Equipment Playground in Vegas that allows people to “play” with heavy machinery.