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TIL in 1998, the USS Yorktown lost all propulsion power and had to be towed back to Norfolk Base when a computer attempted to divide by 0, causing a database to overflow.

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PYJQO TIL, the US Department of Transportation was created in 1966 after congressional hearings prompted by the book "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.
ep7Rb TIL that Malaysian kingship rotates every five years and that it has an elective monarchy
ype TIL that every natural number less than 10^126 is nameable.
yQe0V TIL the woman who holds the record for the most summits of Mount Everest (9) is a single mother who works as a dishwasher at Whole Foods in Connecticut.
N5aN TIL they are building a 65,000 seat floating stadium like a cruise ship that can be moved to different oceanside locations