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TIL Bill Gates wrote his high school’s class scheduling program. He modified it so that he was placed in classes with the “right” girls.

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Z8oD4 TIL Taiwan has an island (Kinmen County) that's only 2 km off the coast of China.
lorWa TIL about the Fast Inverse Square Root, an ingenious set of code that quickly calculated accurate square roots in Quake 3 using floating points and Newton's method. However, it is not exactly known who on the dev team implemented the code.
RbY7 TIL That the Seattle Police Dept. has a TL;DR about smoking pot on their website.
v1LO7 TIL when you get chills listening to music it stimulates reward pathways in the brain. Sad music often triggers chills more often than happy music, yet evokes positive emotions. Sad songs may activate a fear response in the brain, but when no real threat is present, the response turns positive.
GZ04 TIL Dogs sneeze when playful so that rough playing doesn’t turn into a fight.