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TIL that Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks to Get Critical Software Updates

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9DaM TIL Netflix’s library is selected based on what’s popular on piracy sites.
RAO6 TIL that medal of honor recipient Thomas Baker asked to left behind during a Japanese Counter Attack on Saipan due to being wounded. He only asked for 1 pistol with 8 bullets. After returning the US army found his corpse with 8 dead Japanese.
m1XAv TIL It is illegal to be drunk in a Pub in the UK.
KYWdG TIL the Secret Service was originally created in 1865 to combat counterfeiting. At that time, nearly 1/3 of currency in the U.S. was fake.
781rx TIL that the moon is rusting. Lunar hematite which is formed through oxidation of lunar surface iron by the oxygen from the Earth’s upper atmosphere that has been continuously blown to the lunar surface by solar wind when the Moon is in Earth’s magnetotail.