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TIL that scientists had to rename genes because MS Excel would convert those names into dates

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ANkGa TIL the 4 biggest US cities by Area are all in Alaska
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d8na8 TIL that Larry Thor recorded an album called "Galloping on my Dinosaur." His son Cameron would later go on to appear in Jurassic Park as the agent who approaches Dennis Nedry.
neZ8b TIL: Before the year 2000 problem, caused by storing only 2 digits for the year, there was the year 1970 problem because only one digit was stored for years from 1960 to 1969
pYxrO TIL of Nigel Richards, a tournament-Scrabble player. In 2015, despite not speaking French, Richards won the French World Scrabble Championships, after reportedly spending nine weeks studying the French dictionary. He won it again in 2018, and multiple duplicate titles from 2016.