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TIL that Copium isn’t just a meme phrase, but a type of bug

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Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
jNBRa TIL In 1943, Mexican farmer Dionisio Pulido witnessed the birth of a volcano in his cornfield, 200 miles west of Mexico City. Starting as a slight depression, it soon became a smoking, hissing fissure. Over 9 years, the volcano Paricutin grew to a height of 7454 feet & destroyed several towns.
KOeVB TIL of the Sloot Digital Coding System which allegedly could compress a whole movie to 8kb, but the creator died before releasing the code and only parts of it have been recovered
M7ODA TIL a one-legged clown was convicted of murdering an heiress in Chicago in 1912 and was sentenced to life in prison, but he escaped and was never found.
1WQd TIL that two 6-year olds were suspended from school for playing cops and robbers and forming their fingers into an imaginary gun