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TIL that there are 72 names of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved on the Eiffel Tower

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QJWM6 TIL Director John Landis violated child labour laws & ignored warnings in a Twilight Zone scene with a helicopter & explosives. This resulted in the decapitation of Vic Morrow & a child actor, the death of another child actor, & the loss of the helicopter. He was acquitted of all charges.
16nLW TIL wooden norias of the Orontes river in Hama, Syria were driven by water flowing underneath them pushing the wheel's paddles. Maintained by skilled carpenters till recently due to lack of money and skilled craftsmen, norias delivered up to 200,000 litres of water per hour to timeshared channels
pYrDp TIL a Czech brewery employs crayfish to monitor water quality. The crayfish are fitted with high-tech sensors that monitor their movement and vitals. Any changes in the crayfish's condition or behavior alert the brewers to possible water issues.
OJX6 TIL in 2012, a lone hacker mapped the entire Internet using a botnet running on 420,000 routers and released 9TB of data.
e0BaD TIL Microsoft tried to monopolize the early web browser market by making it difficult to install other web browsers and slowing down Windows if Internet Explorer was uninstalled.