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TIL from 1906 to 1980, New Hebrides (today Vanuatu) was a condominium jointly ruled by France and the United Kingdom

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NXro6 TIL that Big Bird was originally suggested as one of the candidates to go aboard the Challenger shuttle.
VM66p TIL of Lester Patrick, a coach for the New York Rangers who played at goalie in the 1928 Stanley Cup Finals while the head coach and GM for the team.
gMyEW TIL that software bugs in a radiation therapy machine were responsible for killing 3 people with high doses of radiation
mxAKM TIL that men wearing wedding rings was not common until World War 2, when soldiers would wear a ring to remind them of their love back home. After WW2, it became mainstream for men to wear a wedding ring.
ndxo TIL the Queen’s Guard at Buckingham Palace handle public nuisances not by ignoring them as seen in movies, but by shouting and pointing their loaded rifles at them.