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TIL That Americans speak English totally different from each other

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nbdo TIL African-American physicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard’s first space flight by hand. When NASA used computers for the first time to calculate John Glenn’s orbit around Earth, officials called on Johnson to verify its numbers.
KOdXB TIL of “The New Shadow” - a supposed sequel to LOTR that told of the reign of Aragorn’s descendant, men turning back to evil, and a plot to oust the king of Gondor. Tolkien quickly abandoned it after writing only 13 pages.
jPea TIL Less than half (~48.48%) of Reddit’s most popular links get noticed on their first submission to the site (Academic Paper)
Lkv4Q TIL about a woman born without a vagina that gave oral sex before a knife fight, was impregnated by a stab wound from the knife, and gave birth to a baby boy via c-section.
EwxW TIL Doug from Scrubs is now a lawyer in Chicago