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TIL Ivy League has nothing to do with academics; it only refers to the schools' sports league

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kOe97 TIL that Shakuntala Devi, also known as the human computer, gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer(546,372,891) was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
wa0E TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, many of whom were Hindus and Muslims
R5ZnQ TIL the Beatles (John, Paul, George, Ringo) were only together for 7 years and 7 months
GYx7G TIL The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope captured an image of granular looking convection cells on the surface of the sun, which are each about the size of Texas. Features as small as 30 km can be resolved from the image
7rNdL Homesick student Kleon Papadimitriou biked 48 days to make it back home to his family during lockdown!