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TIL The computing term "debugging" originated from the time when engineers had to remove moths (and other bugs) that the vaccum tubes attracted

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YpLov TIL about the spotlight effect, a phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. It comes from the innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one's own world, one is not the center of everyone else's.
5YX9 TIL a lost 1 year old boy was kept alive by feral cats.
BgNEW TIL Die Hard was based on the book, "Nothing Lasts Forever." John McClane's original name was Joseph Leland. Furthermore, the first book in the series was made into a film as well, with the lead played by Frank Sinatra, titled, "The Detective", in 1968.
nxbr TIL only about %4 of the money raised by the National Breast Cancer Research Center goes to research.
MBg8 TIL due to name confusion, the staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly-addressed mail.