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TIL about Bill Benter, a gambler who wrote an algorithm that helped him win nearly $1 billion on horse races.

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4XLlX TIL in 1995 Newsweek published an article berating the internet and calling visions about its future "baloney". It predicted that "no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."
VLJG TIL that Nestlé are draining developing countries water only to make them buy it back.
VBKWZ TIL the remains of 1,150 unidentified victims of the 9/11 terror attacks are kept inside the September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in New York City
BgpPd TIL "Below the fold" is referring to the bottom half of a newspaper.
ANQvo TIL that ex Confederate General Joseph E Johnston died after serving as a pallbearer at the funeral of his former opponent General Sherman in 1891. Despite rain and cold, Johnston refused to wear a hat, out of respect for Sherman.