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TIL in Japan the Pile of Poo emoji (?) means “good luck”

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rNvaM TIL that internal Boeing emails about the 737 MAX included "this airplane is designed by clowns, supervised by monkeys" - sent BEFORE the crashes that killed 346 people.
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wo0a6 TIL that "Weird Al" Yankovic is one of only five artists to chart on the Billboard Top 100 each of the previous four decades. The other four are U2, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Kenny G.
gM7ZA TIL the confetti used for the celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs' win at the Super Bowl 2020 were printed with fans' tweets on them.
Be5W TIL that on Christmas Eve in 2008, SpaceX and Tesla were literally hours from bankruptcy until Elon Musk was able to secure $20M from investors in those final hours. Two days later, SpaceX won a contract with NASA worth $1.6B.