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TIL it’s normal to have an urge to jump off a cliff

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mG6p TIL the name of the country Bhutan translates to “The Land of Dragons“, the Bhutanese people call themselves translated “Dragon People“ and the head of state of Bhutan is the “Dragon King“
One6 TIL that the first person to discover a full dinosaur skeleton was crushed and nearly killed by a landslide. She was also banned from The Geological Society Of London for being a working class woman.
mxd7M TIL that after "Freddy Got Fingered" won multiple Razzie Awards, Tom Green personally attended to accept his awards. He brought his own red carpet, and during his speech he played the harmonica so poorly and for so long he had to be dragged off the stage.
GYX05 TIL Jimmy Carter still lives in the same $167,000 house he built in Georgia in 1961 and shops at Dollar General
9Y8dX TIL The term "bug" to describe a runtime error was popularized when in 1947 engineers discovered their program on a Harvard University Mark II computer was not working because a moth was stuck in one of the relays. They taped the bug into their engineering log book, still preserved today.