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TIL Finnish radio has a channel broadcasting current news in Latin

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yVxWw TIL that the first left-handed bass guitarist in The Beatles was not Paul McCartney, but Chas Newby. After playing with The Beatles 4 times in December 1960, they asked him to join the group on a trip to Germany. He refused and went back to university.
BrwbK TIL the computer term "software bug" is because a moth got stuck in a Mark II relay, causing errors in their computer output
94eG TIL Cicada 3301 is an anonymous organization that on three occasions has posted a set of complex puzzles to recruit capable cryptanalysts from the public. It has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age”.
KOYXa TIL Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins owns the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
x0jk TIL There are insects called ‘Velvet Ants’ that are actually wingless wasps