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TIL that the Amazonian giant centipede eats bats, birds, frogs, snakes and mice, making it one of few invertebrates that hunts vertebrates

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YrWW TIL that Henri Nestle invented his breast milk substitute to help Europe’s high infant mortality rates. Today, Nestle abuse their market power to get African mothers hooked on their products.
4ywN TIL NBC cancelled Rob Lowe’s “Lyon’s Den” show after 6 episodes but forced Lowe and creator to film the remaining episodes for DVD. Those two holding creative rights, filmed it as “absurd as possible” incl revealing the main character as a mass murderer
XYeX TIL while on duty at a Soviet nuclear attack warning station in 1983, Stanislav Petrov’s computer indicated the US had fired several missles. He decided his computer was faulty and urged against a launch. He was right, averting nuclear war, but was not rewarded and was reprimanded by his superiors.
l7VoN TIL: During the Christmas/NYE holiday season of 2022, a winter storm caused Southwest Airlines' (ancient) crew scheduling software to break down, stranding crew members and cancelling 50% of flights between 21-30 December. Losses were reportedly between $1.1 billion to over $1.2 billion.
QNrAL Til that the alien resurrection game disc for the ps1 also doubled as a boot disc for pirated games