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TIL two trapped miners once asked for an ipod with The Foo Fighters music on it to keep their spirits up. After hearing this, Dave Grohl wrote a note saying "I want you to know that when you come home, there's two tickets to any Foos show, anywhere, and two cold beers waiting for you".

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xwD7 TIL each agency of the US government has put a price on a human life. As of 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a human life at $9.1 million. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration put it at $7.9 million — and the Department of Transportation figure was around $6 million.
ZknR TIL that Ada Lovelace, a female English mathematician and writer, wrote an algorithm in the mid 1800s designed to be carried out by a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
P1YmV TIL that despite being the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter also spins the fastest. It completes one full rotation in just under 10 hours.
yQyoM TIL in 1954 an archaeologist discovered 1,224 intact pieces of wood from 2500BC under the Great Pyramid of Giza. A boat builder then spent 14 years figuring out how they fit together and un-warping them to assemble the "Khufu ship", visible in a museum today.
WkvxX TIL that Dylan McDermott was never in Home Alone 3. Lenny Von Dohlen played Burton Jernigan in Home Alone 3.