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TIL Sandra Bullock is fluent in German

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jNKjN TIL that Peter Mahew portrayed the character Chewbacca from the Star Wars films for nearly 40 years, from 1977 to 2015. Chewbacca was nearly 200 years old in the films and was inspired by George Lucas' dog.
ZO8R TIL male infants show a stronger interest in the physical-mechanical objects while the female infants show a stronger interest in social objects
BrjXb TIL in 2017, a black labrador got their own photo in the Stafford High School yearbook. Alpha, the service dog of Andrew Schalk, would alert him if his blood sugar got too low; he even had his own school ID
GYMjj TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atom bomb" and the head of the Manhattan Project, once tried to poison his advisor for making him do experimental work instead of theoretical physics.
woYkE TIL that the fundamentals of modern computer programming were conceived by six women who worked on the first digital computer, ENIAC, in the 1940s. The techniques they created are still used widely today, but the women were not recognised for their work for decades.