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TIL the 1998 war film “The Thin Red Line” was cut from an initial five hours to three and a half after over a year of editing. Performances by Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Sheen, Gary Oldman and other notable actors were cut entirely, while others like George Clooney’s were reduced to cameos.

gMyEW TIL that software bugs in a radiation therapy machine were responsible for killing 3 people with high doses of radiation
RGJ6 TIL that Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates had shouting matches during Ballmer’s transition to Microsoft CEO. As of 2014, they no longer speak to each other
pYOQ4 TIL of Didier Delsalle, the only pilot to have successfully landed a helicopter on the summit (8848m) of Mt Everest.
6EMd8 Hong Kong-based students, Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li designed a door handle that uses light to always keep itself sterilized. The students were inspired by the SARS outbreak in the 2000s and figured that a self-sanitizing door handle is more effective than the chemical-based cleaning processes we are using right now. The handle is made of a glass tube with aluminum caps at each end and the entire handle is covered in a powdered photocatalytic coating made from a mineral called titanium dioxide. The bacteria is decomposed through a chemical reaction that is activated by UV light reacting with the thin coating on the glass tube.
J9Zm TIL Federal prosecutors built a hacking case against a John Kane, a man who raked in half a million dollars exploiting a minor glitch in a video poker machine. Kane’s lawyer said, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” They won