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TIL the incantation Uncle recites in Jackie Chan Adventures (Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao) translates to “Spirits, demons, ghosts, monsters, quickly leave.”

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VML5p TIL that a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process (like a mailer-daemon). The name is taken from Maxwell's demon, an imaginary being from a thought experiment that constantly works in the background, sorting molecules.
wKVJ TIL the word “lunatic” originally referred to someone who would become periodically insane with the changes of the moon - it literally means “moon-sick”
vPE0L TIL, that the concept of a pre-flight checklist was first introduced by management and engineers at the Boeing Company following the 1935 crash of the prototype Boeing B-17 (then known as the Model 299) at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, killing both pilots.
EdVd TIL that a child only displaying redeye in one eye in a photograph, should be immediately checked for retinolastoma, a cancer of the retina.
5VVlD TIL that Mongolia built a 130 foot statue of Genghis Khan in 2008. 782 years after his death in 1226 A.D.