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8ZLV TIL the reason Saran Wrap sucks now is because the company that makes it decided to remove an environmentally harmful ingredient, despite knowing that it would hurt sales
4k9ab TIL That The Star-Spangled Banner was originally a British drinking song
KOEZw TIL Dasrath Manjhi spent 1960 to 1982 chiseling away at a mountain, without anyone assisting him, to create a new road which shortened the driving distance to his village by 40 km. He was motivated by the fact that his wife died from being unable to get to a hospital in time.
J4Wj TIL: That in 1962, a programmer omitted a single hyphen in the code for the Mariner I rocket, causing it to explode shortly after take off. This typo cost NASA the equivalent of $630 million dollars today.
y88a TIL that Wimbledon finalist Andy Murray is a survivor of the Dunblane school massacre where 17 adults and children were killed and that his mother gave the killer lifts in her car.