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TIL During development of the game Wing Commander, a memory error would occur when exiting the game. They didn't have enough time to fix the error before shipping so they changed the error message to "Thanks for playing Wing Commander."

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J1XKj TIL about the phenomena of polyandry or “wife-sharing” in Qing Dynasty China. Due to practices such female infanticide and concubinage there was an overall gender imbalance in society that poor husbands would exploit via renting their wives out to other, unmarried men for a fee.
kJ5w4 TIL the word "boycott" comes from the name of an English landlord who was so loathed by his Irish community, they simply refused to work for or deal with him until he had no choice but to leave.
OGaD1 TIL in 1958 Two Pilots Flew A Cessna 172 For 64 Days Straight, Refueling By Flying Over A Gas Truck On A Road.
XE1Jk TIL the Honey Possum (of Western Australia) is the only flightless animal in the world to live solely on a diet of nectar and pollen. Honey Possum males have the largest sperm of any mammal in the world (0.14inches), whilst their young are born weighing only 0.005g.
GYGEj TIL John Williams did the music for Home Alone