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TIL: The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority officially recognizes port 666 as the port for the First Person Shooter: Doom

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DZAp TIL that in order to set a new helicopter altitude record, Jean Boulet removed all the inessential components, like the starter motor. As soon as he reached record altitude, the engine failed. So he landed safely without using the engine.
0w0e5 TIL CNN’s original web page for the OJ Simpson trial is still online. Check out that URL.
olg7 TIL Steve Wozniak was so good at Tetris that Nintendo Power stopped accepting his high scores, so he submitted them with his name spelled backwards
19wd TIL baseball player Dave Winfield killed a seagull with a baseball during a game and was subsequently arrested for causing unnecessary suffering to an animal
m1g8p TIL: In the 2020's there have been 4 incidents where a commercial airliner was shot down with munitions. Between 2000 and 2020 there were a total of 5 incidents.