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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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oBRMA TIL in 1994 a FedEx flight crew fought off a potential hijacker who was also a FedEx employee trying to commit suicide. They inverted their plane pinning him to the roof, and they almost flied at supersonic speed.
P17xL TIL there's a jetty in Australia that's so long that one end is 2m higher than the other due to the curvature of the Earth
8YA4 TIL that License to Kill (a James Bond film) was originally titled License Revoked; the name was changed as too many people didn’t know the definition of ‘revoked’.
BrVok TIL Laurence Fishburne was only fourteen years old when shooting of Apocalypse Now began in March 1976, as he had lied about his age in order to get cast in his role. The film took so long to finish that Fishburne was seventeen (as his character) by the time of the release.
GNZg TIL strongly held political beliefs reduce your reasoning ability, according to a study conducted at Yale.