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TIL the computer term "software bug" is because a moth got stuck in a Mark II relay, causing errors in their computer output

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gmb TIL that Nasa handed out 370 pieces of moon rock gathered from the Apollo missions, of these 184 are unaccounted for having been lost or stolen including one now in a Dublin landfill. They have also been offered for sale on the black market for $5m.
8dnb TIL The Oregon Trail game was created by 3 teachers on a teletype, which became the biggest educational game in history, yet none of the three creators saw a dime in its millions of dollars in profits.
M7Nv7 TIL the curved surface of the habitat at the end of the movie Interstellar i.e. Cooper station is based on O'Neill cylinders in which two cylinders each 20miles long and 5miles in diameter rotate about their longitudinal axis thus providing centrifugal force serving as gravity.
GweQ TIL 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives.
R4Ba TIL in 1988 a United States warship accidentally shot down an Iranian civilian airplane, killing nearly 300 passengers, after confusing it for an attacking F-14.