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TIL the Denver airport automatic baggage handling system is one of the biggest financial losses in the history of American construction

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G47J TIL: A programmer was hired by a Florida congressman to rig electronic voting machines in previous elections with a 49%/51% outcome. The code was not detectable. This is the video of his testimony under oath.
7rpnP TIL Napoleon struggled to learn English, and some of his attempts were kept: "Since sixt week j learn the Englich and j do not any progress."
jRkv TIL a Bosnian man faked his own death just to see who would come to his funeral. Only his mother showed up.
OQ5g TIL that despite John Carter being considered a monumental flop for Disney, it actually broke box office records in Russia
awv60 TIL that in 1948 a man became fatally stuck underneath his tractor, and used his pocketknife to scratch the words "In case I die in this mess, I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo Harris" into the fender. His scratching constituted a valid will.