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TIL Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men is a cover of a song that came out a year before it in Trinidad

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0mJA Today I Learned that a programmer that had previously worked for NASA, testified under oath that voting machines can be manipulated by the software he helped develop.
D1kaD TIL that it took 80 years from the invention of the telephone for call centres to become a mainstream part of business
N7My6 TIL that when famed jeweler Harry Winston donated the 45-carat Hope Diamond, valued at $200 to $250 million USD, to the Smithsonian in Washington, he sent it via the Postal Service.
GA1mj TIL that humans are bad at face recognition and almost can't distinguish unknown people apart.
M4GV TIL in 2005, a woman performing her first solo skydive jump of 10000 ft survived a parachute malfunction which caused her to slam face first into a parking lot at 50 MPH. During surgery doctors discovered she was pregnant. She made a full recovery and the baby was fine.