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TIL that the term “bug” for a software malfunction became popular because it was once (in 1947) traced back to a moth stuck in the system.

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v14J8 TIL the $2 bill makes up 1% of currency circulation. Its scarcity in daily use has confused some merchants who believe the bill to be fake. A 13 y/o girl in Texas was detained by Police when she tried to pay for her school lunch with a $2 bill, b/c the school’s counterfeit pen wouldn’t work on it.
awJRL TIL that the drink mix Tang wasn't created by or for NASA. It was introduced in 1957 but sold poorly until the U.S. space agency used it for John Glenn's 1962 Mercury mission. Tang was then marketed as what the astronauts drank, but Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin later said, "Tang sucks."
abYA TIL: Between 1903 to 1905, a cartoonist named Gustave Verbeek created a comic strip called The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, in which half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, but when turned upside-down, it showed the scenes of the second half.
b9Z5p TIL Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling's final project was Fantasy Park, a 1975 radio concert. It was a 48-hour long rock concert edited together from dozens of separate live acts, including The Beatles. Presented as an actual concert, stations reportedly received calls asking how to get to the show.
4kNKw TIL that the Block of Marble which later turned into the Statue of David by Michelangelo, had a past of Rejection by other sculptors before its making.