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TIL There’s a kind of turtle with a green punk hairstyle
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Til October 5th to October 14th, 1582 never existed
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TIL That when Oprah gifted cars to her entire audience, she refused to pay the taxes on the gifts, hence only allowing people willing to pay the gift tax (up to ~10k) to walk away with a car.
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TIL that in 2013 a grad student accidentally debunked an influential economics paper. He was trying to replicate the paper’s math for a school project and couldn’t, because it was completely wrong.
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TIL Helios 522 was a case of a "Ghost Plane", the cabin didn't pressurize and all but one on board passed out from hypoxia. The plane circled in a holding pattern for hours driven by autopilot before flight attendant Andreas Prodromou took over the controls, crashing into a rural hillside.
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TIL The word "robot" comes from an old Slavic word, robota, meaning "forced labor".