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TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is Microsoft's longest-running software product line, predating Windows by three years

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E1VBV TIL 'zavana' was the indigenous name for the plains around Comagre in Panama - it was borrowed into Spanish and then English to describe similar environments, becoming the modern word 'savanna'
kEl1 TIL in 1986, Saddam Hussein built Iraq’s largest dam. He decided to call it “Saddam”
M7o8a TIL the "Tommy Gun" was the 1st weapon labelled a "submachine gun." It originally sold for $200 in 1921 and has since become a collector's item. Today a gun can fetch between $25K-$45K with a model believed to be owned by Bonnie & Clyde selling for $130K.
4kOOJ TIL about Project West Ford, a Cold War project done by MIT on behalf of the US military. It was an attempt to create an artificial ionosphere around the Earth by launching millions of copper needles into orbit.
R5yJQ TIL that "Time" by Hans Zimmer was from Inception, not Interstellar