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TIL that there is a single that was featured on the Billboard charts in 1979, but no copy of the song is known to exist today

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dDN79 TIL that the infamous Pac-Man kill screen is caused by an overflow error causing the game to try and draw 256 pieces of fruit. However, the code then starts drawing random garbled pieces of memory, causing half the screen to get covered in random graphics that the game interprets as fruit.
yVV6a TIL about the Demon Core, a spherical 6.2 kg. mass of plutonium intented to be a third nuclear weapon against Japan. After Japan surrended, it was kept in the US where it caused the death of two Nuclear Physicists.
RWkw TIL: By age 23, 49% of black males, 44% of Hispanic males and 38% of white males have been arrested.
VBdZG TIL The Architect who designed the Twin Towers also worked with the Binladin Group on Saudi Arabia's Dhahran International Airport 10 years prior
neX8o TIL that Dr. Carlo Urbani recognized the emergence of a outbreak of pneumonia as a new epidemic and immediately notified the WHO, personally flying to Hanoi to investigate. He would die this day in 2003 of SARS, having triggered the most effective response to an epidemic in history.