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TIL on 1st April,2008 Youtube rickrolled its viewers by redirecting every featured front page video to the original song video, ‘Never gonna give you up’

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EgKXx TIL Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts. When she went into labor, she took a printout of her problem to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to actor Jack Black.
5ADB TIL Farrah Gray is the youngest person to have a Wall Street office and is estimated to be worth 20 million dollars. At 13 years old he founded Farr-Out Food which in a period of one year had received food orders of over 1.5 million dollars making him a millionaire at 14.