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TIL Cosmic rays can trigger bitflips (Soft Errors) in computers, glitching them in disastrous ways.

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KOGBR TIL the spotted white porcelain anemone crab has highly unusual seafan-shaped claws which it uses to filter the water while sitting on top of an anemone by first collecting mucus from its host anemone's tentacles and then using that to attract and gather small sea creatures and plankton for food.
yQLpJ TIL that Russian stadium didn't meet FIFA regulations so they added 18k seats
b6RLQ TIL Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall were roommates together in NYC in the 1960s while working as struggling actors.
ADgp7 TIL that in 2008, the Municipality of Florence officially apologized for expelling Dante 700 years earlier.
l7JKV TIL that George H.W. Bush thought about naming Clint Eastwood as his running mate.