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TIL that a UK documentary once showed video footage of an IRA group using Lybian weapons including a truck mounted Anti Aircraft gun, shooting down a British helicopter. The footage turned out to be from Arma2, a video game. The IRA really did blow up a helicopter in 1994, but with a mortar.

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oRwBo TIL in 2010, McAfee deployed a defective update to their corporate customers that took critical devices offline and required manual work to remediate. Founder and CEO of CrowdStrike, George Kurtz, was CTO of McAfee at the time.
VMawp TIL of the Winterberg tunnel; which , during WW1 was sealed shut by French artillery fire trapping the 270 German soldier inside. Over the next six days, as oxygen ran out, they either suffocated or took their own lives. Some asked comrades to kill them. The tunnel has just been discovered.
Z861o TIL In 1817: Welsh manufacturer and labor rights activist Robert Owen coins the phrase “Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest,” dividing the day into three equal eight-hour parts. Creating the 40 hour work week.
R7oXl TIL of Julie D’Aubigny, who was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer who once took vows at a convent just so she could have sex with another nun, and then set it on fire. When she kissed a women at a ball, she was challenged to a duel by 3 men and she then beat them all.
QpZa TIL In the US you can be arrested for drunk driving even if you’re sleeping it off in the backseat of your parked car.