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TIL-K.I.T.T in Knight Rider was voiced by William Daniels, popularly known as the actor who played Mr. Feeny in Boy Meets World

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D1YPg TIL of Julie D'Aubigny, the famous 17th century French opera singer who once took the holy vows to enter a convent so she could have sex with a nun. She also had a habit of seducing women at parties, which led to their husbands challenging her to a duel. An expert duelist, she killed 10 men this way
jN60a TIL Thomas Edison would give potential employees a bowl of soup during the interview, if they salted or peppered the soup before tasting it they wouldn't get the job. This was to test whether the employees had analytical minds and didn't make assumptions.
d8Y9 TIL The highly classified Task Force Black removed or killed 3,500 insurgents from the streets of Baghdad, reducing bombings from 150 per month to about 2 per month.
EgZr0 TIL Ramanujan’s work has been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. Researchers are still discovering mere comments in his mathematical writings turning out to be profound that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death.
WEJ4 TIL during WW1 the British executed soldiers inflicted with Shell Shock (Combat Stress Disorder) on the basis of cowardice because Shell Shock wasn’t considered a psychiatric disorder.