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TIL Bill Gates wrote his school’s computer program for scheduling students in their classes. He edited it so he would end up sitting with female students.

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b9G44 TIL that the average full time online poker player sits at their computer around 6 hours a day
BXvb TIL that teenage groupies of 12 to 16 years old known as The Baby Groupies hung around with, and slept with, rock stars in the early 70s
4XgAo TIL John Quincy Adams would go skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning. Anne Royall, the first female journalist to ever score an interview with a president, discovered Adams skinny dipping one morning and hid his clothing until he agreed to talk to her.
RB8Q TIL in the Roman Empire, daytime was divided into 12 hours between sunrise and sunset, meaning that the length of hours changed with the seasons.
QNWBp TIL in 1957, dentist Charles Kremer in New York voiced his suspicion that a high-ranking church official, Archbishop Valerian Trifa, was actually the Nazi war criminal Viorel Trifa. 20 years later, investigators found Trifa's fingerprint on a postcard to Heinrich Himmler in a German archive.