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TIL Diamond Jim Brady had over 2 million dollars in jewelry, equivalent to over $73 million today

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W7L8B TIL that, in 1805, Carl Friedrich Gauss had actually invented Fast Fourier Transform even before Fourier Transform itself but it was forgotten because he didn't publish it. It was re-invented about 160 years later by James Cooley & John Tukey, in a bid to detect nuclear bomb testing underground.
D1epv TIL : we finally developed a new steel alloy as light as titanium!
ADAno TIL of Walt Whitman's friend, Silas Soule. At 17, he was escorting slaves on the Underground Railroad. By 22, he'd staged two prison heists & become a blacksmith. At 26, he defied orders to participate in a massacre of Native Americans, testified against its architect, and was murdered for it.
pYW5Z TIL there's an "Old Perth" and that Perth, AU is basically "New Perth".
EOoV TIL Kim Jong-il was granted 54 titles, including ‘Glorious General, Who Descended From Heaven’, 'Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradely Love’ and 'Amazing politician’.