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TIL that there are almost 50 types of programming languages.

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P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
5Yprp TIL of the Schiphol fly, which is a fly engraved on urinals at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The psychology is that men will want to "wash" the fly off the urinal so they focus more when urinating, apparently lowering cleaning bills in public bathrooms.
mxROM TIL South Korea grounds all planes and businesses are open later on the day in which students take the test used for admissions to universities
gMeo7 TIL the wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin almost died after falling in the shower from trying to moonwalk to ‘Michael Jackson’s - Bad’ and ended up having to call 9-1-1 to get him out.
ne7BP TIL when poisonous frogs are fed zoo diets they no longer become poisonous. The wide variety of food in the wild supplies them with the chemicals for making poison.