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TIL of George Stinney, the youngest person ever executed in America, at 14. He was wrongly charged for murder after finding the bodies of two white girls in South Carolina.

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6Q5m TIL we’re now exposed to as much data in a single day as someone in the 15th century would be in their entire lifetime.
YpYmZ TIL the first song sung by a computer was Daisy Bell (1892) in the year 1961.
lp8G TIL that during the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the French naval officer Du Petit Thouars, having lost both legs and an arm, continued to command from a bucket filled with wheat, until he died.
l7e77 TIL of Abraham Wald, who in WW2 proposed that the US Military focus on reinforcing sections of the returning planes showing the least concentration of bullet holes. Initially, the Military planned to reinforce sections containing the most bullet holes, disregarding the phenomenon of survival bias
K77B TIL the Maunder minimum was a period of record-low sunspot activity that lasted from 1645 to 1715. This period coincides with the Little Ice Age and suggested to scientists that solar activity plays a major role in Earth’s climate.