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TIL that the middle out compresion algorithm in the HBO series Silicon Valley is a real thing and is used by Dropbox's Lepton compression algorithm.

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WPld TIL in WW2 Japan unwittingly created one of the best fighter aircraft of the war. When the inline engines intended for the Ki-61 were destroyed in a bombing raid, engineers shoehorned in a radial engine instead. The resulting amalgamation was the venerable Ki-100.
6EKWX TIL at one of Trumps golf courses, there’s a plaque commemorating a civil war battle that never happened
4grN TIL the average female porn star is a dark-haired, 22 year old, 5’5″ woman who weighs 117lbs and has B-cup breasts.
lp7G TIL Charles Sheridan repeated Milgram’s experiment with one difference. He used a puppy as a victim instead of a human. Intriguingly, the six students out of 26 that refused to go on were all men while all thirteen women who participated in the experiment obeyed right up until the end.
78VDM TIL that the world's largest snowflake on record measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. It fell in Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887 and was reported to be "larger than milk pans."