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TIL the "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before it fails due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel.

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xANg TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks only 18 lines in ‘The Terminator’ and less than 100 words in total.
9wQ1B TIL in December of 1996, a crime novelist was found hanged by a noose from his Chicago office window. Although officially ruled to be suicide, several items were found on him including a bulletproof vest, brass knuckles, mace and an unfinished novel that oddly contained a similar suicide scene.
WkLRo TIL that playing the didgeridoo has been clinically proven to help treat sleep apnea.
P18aV TIL that the Colt Armalite AR-15 was used in Vietnam starting in 1961. Battlefield reports from US Army Special Forces lavishly praised the AR-15 and the stopping-power of the 5.56mm cartridge, pressing for wide adoption as a replacement for the M-14. The M-16 variant was then deployed in 1964.
E8Aw TIL 63% of US prison inmates are functionally illiterate