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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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g8Zb TIL Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.
nen4d TIL that during the Rwandan genocide, a priest lured around 2000 Tutsis into his church under promise of protection, then ordered the church with all those inside bulldozed and shot the survivors.
GYVg7 TIL that Rose Cleveland, who served as "acting First Lady" of the United States for 14 months while her brother Grover Cleveland was a bachelor, was a lesbian.
b6M7j TIL of Australia's 1975 constitutional crisis, in which the Prime Minister was removed from power by the Governor-General (representing the Crown in Australia) without an election
b9Bk9 TIL Bobby Fischer never saw the film bearing his name and strongly complained that it was an invasion of his privacy by using his name without his permission. Fischer never received any compensation from the film, calling it "a monumental swindle".