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TIL while in University mathematician George Dantzig solved two famous mathematical problems mistaking them for homework

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yQM7a TIL Apple doesn't allow villains in movies to use iPhones as to not cast Apple products in a bad light.
b9jNE TIL there is a traditional Sardinian cheese banned in the EU that is filled with live maggots and secretes liquid (not safe for life)
rR4Ow TIL Cyril of Alexandria claimed that “camel” is a Greek misspelling in the phrase “it’s easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven.” He claimed camel was actually “kamilos,” meaning rope.
N7EnE TIL Nasa has/had M113 APCs should they need to carry out a rescue mission to the launch pad holding the Space Shuttle. The status of M113 is unknown.
KYBvJ TIL of the concept of agnoiology - the study of ignorance