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TIL that the Xbox 360’s “Red Ring of Death” problem was so widespread that, in 2007, more than 30% of consoles failed. Repairs cost Microsoft $1.15 billion.

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9BJB TIL that in Singapore, during WWII, the Malayan Infantry noticed a troop of Punjabi soldiers marching in a line of four, instead of a line of three as how the soldiers of the British Army would and opened fire, killing several men. The Punjabi soldiers were actually Japanese soldiers in disguise.
VlYZ TIL on the planet Venus, it snows metal including Lead and Bismuth
nWBQG TIL that there are crystals that suddenly cannot be recreated, having been replaced globally by more stable forms via global contamination of microscopic seed crystals
EmK0 TIL Werner Heisenberg, the creator of quantum mechanics, said, “The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
8XoP TIL an Island off Brazil is Estimated to have 1 Golden Lancerhead Viper Per Square Meter