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TIL that Texas bluesman Blind Willie Johnson (who fittingly wrote “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground”) slept in the ruins of his home after it burnt down until his death in 1945.

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YbYA TIL in 1945, Grace Hopper traced a computer problem to a moth between the relays, then taped it up into her log book and wrote, “First actual case of a bug being found.” This popularized the terms “bug” and “debug” and her log book is now stored within the Smithsonian.
QJmnM TIL that a middle school football coach in Oregon was fired for trying to take his team to Hooters to celebrate the end of the season.
MeG4A TIL The fact that animals move from one place to another, without any apparent external cause and often in complicated and unpredictable ways, fascinated Aristotle. Instead of muscles Aristotle had theories on "neura" – usually translated as ‘sinews’ or ‘tendons’
a8gW9 TIL that dingos are considered by many to be a distinct species, Canis dingo. Making it the only native terrestrial animal in the order Carnivora.