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TIL- we are all running Minix and we don't even know it

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WkopN TIL of Conrad Veidt, the man who played the villain in Casablanca, who gave up a career as one of the highest-paid actors in Germany in '33. When forced to declare his race for the government he wrote "Juden" despite not being Jewish, because his wife was and he wouldn't renounce her.
KYJRB TIL Shrek was based on a picture book from 1990. It about him (and eventually the princess) embracing his/their ugliness.
jrmQ TIL that there is a “zip bomb” that expands to 107000000 times its original size when unzipped and can be used to bypass antivirus software.
oBN9K TIL when Hiroshima was bombed, Tokyo's first indication that Hiroshima was destroyed by a new kind of bomb came 16 hours after the strike and originally thought reports of an explosion was just a rumour.
KY666 TIL baseball legend Ted Williams was wingman for astronaut legend John Glenn in the Korean War