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TIL viruses use compression in their genome

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jKQn TIL: Bruce Almighty was originally written by a community college English professor - titled Almighty Me, and he was never credited as a writer for the movie.
M7OOK TIL that 70 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Joseph and Mary Tape filed suit against a San Francisco school principal and the city's board of education for denying their American-born 8 year-old daughter Mamie an education due to her Chinese heritage. They won.
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BgEEe TIL Edison was not the one who promised Tesla a reward of fifty thousand dollars, who was referred to as "the manager". Basically, it's more of a joke than a promise.