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TIL that according to a study by the British Academy of Sound Therapy the song Weightless by Marconi Union is the most relaxing song ever

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xPAw TIL On September 1997, the $1 billion American warship USS Yorktown’s propulsion system failed. The Yorktown was incapacitated in the Atlantic Ocean for 2 hours and 45 minutes. The propulsion system failure was caused when the software program made an error by dividing with zero.
nKL7 TIL Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the anti-Taliban forces, warned of an imminent, large-scale attack against the USA in April 2001. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001. John O'Neill, referring to the assassination, said “We’re due for something big”. He died one day later on September 11, 2001.
69yrW TIL that there are as many as one million Americans living illegally in Mexico (as of 2017); perhaps more now.
lLgV TIL in 2012 a charity dropped off boxes in a remote African village containing Xoom tablets with no instructions. Within 4 minutes a child turned one on. Within 5 days, kids were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within 2 weeks they were singing ABC songs. Within 5 months they had hacked Android.
mx74p TIL of Littlewood’s Law of Miracles, which defines a miracle as a hugely-improbable, 1-in-a-million event. Assuming there are roughly eight hours per day where humans are alert, and we experience an “event” once per second, on average we should expect to experience a miracle about once per month.