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TIL the average American is more religious than the average Iranian

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ykDX TIL in 1958 Alaska was hit with a Mega Tsunami that measured 1720ft tall. Taller than the Empire State Building
16DPd TIL that fixing a software bug made the bug worse. While fixing a flaw in the Atari BASIC language that causes the computer to freeze, the programmer saw the same code elsewhere, and changed that too. Doing so reintroduced the same problem he had fixed, but now the lock up occurs much more often.
4xL5 TIL that It was rumored that the Apple Inc. logo had a bite taken from it to represent the poison apple that computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing, allegedly laced with cyanide to kill himself with. The designer has said, it wasn’t, but “It’s a wonderful urban legend.”
lK6r TIL Anderson Cooper was a college intern at the CIA
5n7p TIL that in 1976, North Korean soldiers murdered two American officers who were trying to trim a tree in the DMZ. The U.S. responded by sending a 813-man task force to cut the tree down.