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TIL Wendy Carlos (who composed for Kubrick’s movies) built her own computer in 1953, 23 years before the Apple I. She was 14.

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v1RAj TIL Sarah Winchester, widow of the founder the Winchester Company, built a confusing mansion to ward off the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles. At its zenith the house consisted of over 200 rooms, 10,000 windows, 47 fireplaces, 2,000 doors, several trapdoors, and multiple spy holes.
PYZPG TIL American blues musician Robert Johnson was said to have sold his soul to the devil. The story is that he went to the crossroads near a plantation at midnight and met the devil, who took his guitar, tuned it, played a few songs, and handed the guitar back, granting him mastery of the instrument.
NXBme TIL of Danny Casolaro, a researcher who was found dead in a hotel bathtub shortly before he was set to expose that Reagan committed treason by conspiring with the Iranian government to keep the hostages until his inauguration
BrpyW TIL a Harvard professor who had worked with Bill Gates called him shortly after he had left to start Microsoft. The professor recalled, "He had moved to Albuquerque... to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: 'Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.'"
RJ4a TIL when scientists first realized that American gay men and Africans in France were both suffering from the same disease (AIDS), French researchers sent over a sample to be tested. But a scientist with a grudge against the French institute switched out the sample, setting research back years.