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TIL Bill and Melinda Gates made a site that provides free textbooks for college students 100% legally

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xkPb TIL That Alan Turing (who created a precursor to the modern computer), committed suicide in 1954. Two years prior, he had been “convicted” of homosexuality, in which he was forced to undergo hormonal treatments and lost security clearance to continue his research.
OobML TIL JK Rowling wrote her first book at age 6, and at age 11, she wrote her first novel, about "seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them."
j6Pln TIL: Hundreds of thousands of US students disappeared from public schools during the pandemic and didn’t resume their studies elsewhere.
6ErbJ TIL the sun has a gravitational acceleration of 275 m/s². If one were able to walk on the sun they'd feel a force of 28 g (28 times the gravitational force on earth)
oBOrE TIL in 2007, Hong Kong researchers warned the "presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb"