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TIL Bender’s apartment number 00100100 is a binary representation of the ASCII character “$”.

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PWkg TIL The Economist received a letter from Boston protesting their usage of “niggardly,” an adjective meaning stingy or miserly, because it sounded like the racial slur. The magazine, based in Britain, responded with, “Why do we get such letters only from America?”
Ooyya TIL the survivors of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident have taken an oath of silence not to reveal certain details of what happened
R7NbQ TIL that the myth of the changeling - of faeries replacing a stolen human child with their own - could have been born as an explanation of autistic children. Many traits associated with faeries, such as obsessive counting, are also known in the autism spectrum.
1aXMr TIL of Betty Ong, a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Ong notified the American Airlines ground crew of the hijacking, staying on the telephone for 25 minutes and relaying vital information that eventually led to the closing of airspace by the FAA for the first time in history.
R7Dvl TIL the black paint band around a windshield is actually there to keep the sun from degrading the windshield adhesive