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

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mExP TIL that Winston Churchill, after being told that he could not drink in front of Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”
X0xjr TIL The United Kingdom has successfully created a laser weapon that can hit a moving target with an accuracy of 23mm at 1km distance. It is called Dragonfire
neV0o TIL in 1962 a single missing hyphen in it's code caused the Mariner 1's backup guiding system to fail, leading to the destruction of the spacecraft. This one missing piece of code caused over $130 million dollars in damages.
a8wnM TIL of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, an Italian composer who was expelled from Italy because he was Jewish and ended up working in the USA for Metro-Goldwin-Mayer and other Hollywood productions
KONPR TIL that Emily Dickinson was more widely regarded as a gardener than a poet during her time. She even had a book of over 400 pressed plants.