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TIL: That in 1962, a programmer omitted a single hyphen in the code for the Mariner I rocket, causing it to explode shortly after take off. This typo cost NASA the equivalent of $630 million dollars today.

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DQ6p TIL Mattel’s best-selling Ken doll is Earring Magic Ken. An unintentionally gay doll wearing a purple vest, mesh shirt, and chrome cock ring necklace.
eORb TIL the name of the Crown Prince of Morocco is Hassan ibn Mohammed Al-Alaoui - Hassan bin Mohammed bin Hassan bin Mohammed bin Yousef bin Hassan bin Mohammed bin Abderrahmane bin Hisham bin Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Ismail bin Moulay Ali Charif
Mee8B TIL prior to the advent of commercial aviation, "air-line" referred to railroads that used relatively straight and direct routes.
p8vgA TIL Jessie Roberta Cowan (aka Rita), from Kirkintilloch, Scotland, is known as the Mother of Japanese Whisky. She married Masataka Taketsuru, who had come to Scotland to study Chemistry and the art of whisky-making, and she followed him back to Japan, where she provided moral and financial support.
mxrVo TIL that Young Brothers Pharmacy, in Cartersville GA, is home to the first Coca-Cola wall mural. According to Coca-Cola, the mural was painted in 1894 on the side of Young Bros. Drug Company in downtown Cartersville. A Coca-Cola syrup salesman named James Coudon painted it.