› added 3 months ago

20

TIL A stray cosmic ray is believed to have struck a computer during an 2003 Belgian municipal election and given one of the candidates exactly 4,096 more votes than she should have gotten.

Read more teknos.org

via reddit.com

LQ6BQ TIL Of the letters of last resort. Each UK nuclear submarine has a safe which contains a letter written by the Prime Minister, with instructions on what to do in the case of nuclear war. They're only to be opened when the UK has been hit by nuclear weapons.
pRYp TIL The Janitor from “Scrubs” was meant to be part of JD’s imagination in the first season, as a finale twist if the show was cancelled, which is why he does not interact with any other cast members that season.
rREAw TIL that retired workers in Dublin Distilleries would get a bottle of whiskey every month as part of their pension.
wokr1 TIL that that TRW engineers Don Nelson and "Dick" Pick invented the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System, aka GIRLS
6MBm TIL that if everyone on earth was entitled to a free piece of land on the moon, we would each get just over an acre.