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TIL: Your brain will shrink if you have children!

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j6daR TIL that The Sting (1973) was the first movie by Universal to win the Oscar for best picture in 43 years, since All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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mmnM TIL that the KGB ran a disinformation campaign focused on spreading the rumor that the USA had invented and spread AIDS as part of a biological weapons program
4XkDX TIL that after a sufficiently long haul of insert/delete operations on a Binary Search Tree, the height of the tree degrades to O(sqrt(n)) and does not remain O(logn) mainly because of the fact that Hibbard Deletions lead to an asymmetric tree structure.
Oo4O7 TIL Why You Shouldn't be Scared of Coronavirus