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TIL Harold Williams a 20th Century Linguist and Journalist spoke 58 languages and learnt Serbian in two days. He amazed delegates at the League of Nations by speaking to each in their own language.

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9YLbB TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who saved the world from possible nuclear annihilation by breaking protocol, when on October 5th 1960, the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland falsely detected a level 5 ICBM attack due to the rising moon.
ENYX TIL William Beckford, at age 10, inherited a fortune and spent it on sailing the world with a cook, two dogs, 24 musicians, and a Spanish Dwarf.
Lklvd TIL NASA calculated that you only need 40 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, to the accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom
LQkkP TIL Phil Collins has a lifelong interest in the Battle of the Alamo, and owns one of the largest private collections of Alamo artifacts.
amgy TIL the infamous “It’s a UNIX system!” scene in Jurassic Park is using an actual 3D file explorer called fsn.