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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.

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6EOoW TIL bacteria from chronic gum disease has been found in brains suffering from Alzheimer's. Bad oral hygiene has been a known risk factor for dementia but researchers now suspect that bacteria from gum disease may somehow cross into the brain and cause or worsen Alzheimer's symptoms.
j0LM TIL That It Costs an ISP Less Than a Cent to Transfer a Gigabyte of Data Making at Least a 2000% Markup
R7gN9 TIL: Pythagoras studied mathematics in Egypt and Babylon. Particularly notable as the Babylonians had the ‘Pythagorean theorem’ at least five hundred years before Greece.
9YRL6 TIL in the state of Vermont, some homes have diagonal windows named "witch's windows", which are nearly exclusive to homes in that state
mxPnx TIL of 145 rue Lafayette, Paris. It's a fake building designed to look like a real building. It functions as part of the ventilation system for the Paris subway.