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TIL HAL Laboratory named that way because each letter put them one step ahead of IBM

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5JYp TIL The BBC was accused of censorship after refusing to play “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” during the official charts show. The song reached number 2 after the death of Margaret Thatcher.
R45a TIL: The soft inner part of bread is called the Crumb, not to be confused with crumbs
NZdP TIL of the Tunguska Event. 106 years ago today, an unexplained explosion toppled some 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in central Russia. The energy of the explosion was estimated to be ~1000x greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
WLdL TIL: Otis Redding’s “Sitting On the Dock of the Bay” was finished after his body was pulled from a lake while strapped into the copilot’s chair. Oh…and it’s the 26th greatest song of all time.
0gPM TIL that Disney’s “The Black Cauldron” (1985) was the world’s first full-length animated feature film to incorporate the use of CGI. It was also the first Disney film to receive a PG rating.