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TIL that an arm and a leg are worth $323,099 on average in the USA.

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kO1Zd TIL a student at the University of Michigan changed his official preferred pronoun to “his majesty” in order to protest the policy.
16lNW TIL International Women's day is mostly an Eastern Bloc/Asian holiday officially, with only a few western countries going out to celebrate it in an official manner.
66AW TIL that Microsoft has a patent that allows the Kinect (and other video devices) to count the number of people in the room and stop playback if there are too many viewers. (Link to patent.)
QNMvE TIL the defect that caused an Air France A330 to crash in 2009 was well-known by Airbus (as it had happened more than a dozen times on A330s with various airlines), however Airbus did not make any changes to their autopilot system until after there was a fatal crash.
ZBvB TIL Hans Asperger, who identified autism in 1944, once said, “It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential. The necessary ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways.”.