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TIL that the CEO of Discord is Jewish

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x6Mv1 TIL that on the 30th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square Massacre in 2021, searches for the Tank Man image and videos were censored by Microsoft's Bing search engine worldwide. Microsoft said the issue was "due to an accidental human error".
EgGEx TIL The Mongols employed a gruesome tactic during the siege of Caffa in Genoa. They hurled the bodies of their comrades, who had perished from the bubonic plague, over the city walls, infecting their enemies and marking one of the earliest instances of biological warfare.
bPR7 TIL that the Curiosity Rover sings happy birthday to itself every year on the anniversary of its touch-down on Mars.
LQ0od TIL Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott got his drill stuck on the moon during an experiment. When he reached a depth of 5.3 feet, lunar soil particles rode up the helix of the drill bit and halted its momentum, postponing his task. The drill chuck was later auctioned for almost $50,000 in 2016
nWmrb TIL a US Navy F11 Tiger shot itself down by during a weapons test by catching up with its own bullets.