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TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch is actually related to Alan Turing

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Brmnr TIL in 1987 Iraq attacked the United States ship USS Stark and killed 37 sailors
jNX5a TIL Brigham Young, governor of the Utah Territory from 1851 to 1858, had a granddaughter who lived until 2004.
GYGK1 TIL In the ancient Roman comedic play "The Mother-in-Law," a husband falsely accuses his new wife of infidelity after she gives birth mere months into marriage. A stolen ring reveals he assaulted his future wife in a dark street before they met, and is in fact the father of the child.
R5d8w TIL Mozart composed a song called "Lick Me In The A**" - and by extension, we're much more prudish now about bodily humour than we were in the past.
Ry1Q TIL that Doom was so popular in 1995 that it was installed on more PCs than Windows 95. Bill Gates briefly considered buying ID software, but settled for getting a team at Microsoft to port the game to Win95. The team was led by Gabe Newell.