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TIL the 2024 Summer Olympics will include a breakdancing competition.

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1aAEr TIL An elephant's memory is so good that it not only recognizes all the members of its own clan, but even other creatures who leave a strong impression on them. A pair of elephants who had performed in a circus together were able to recognize each other when they met again after 20 years.
dDVZE TIL that American actor John Lithgow used to make music and has a discography that includes four albums.
E1Gyd TIL in 1952 a chemist was helping out a milk truck driver complaining about the smell of rotten milk in his truck by extracting oils from evergreen trees. 2 years later he patent his “odor-destroying, air-perfuming substances,” invention shaped like a little tree with a string attached to it.
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.
E1B87 TIL of 2015 Book [Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War] by American Susan Southard. It recounts the lifelong experience of five teenage hibakusha (survivors ) after the bombing of Nagasaki in WWII