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TIL that during the outbreak of World War II, London Zoo killed all their venomous animals in case the zoo was bombed and the animals escaped

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RW76 TIL The Unabomber was so smart that for his PHD thesis he solved a math problem that even his own math professor couldn’t solve. Another math professor said of his thesis “I’d guess that only 10 or 12 people in the country could understand or appreciate it.”
BXLx TIL that the first woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science in the United States also earned a Masters degree in Mathematics and Physics, helped develop computer programming languages, AND she was a Catholic nun.
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EAY7 TIL the first Alien movie was originally going to end with the alien winning
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