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TIL of the Digital dark age, a time that may come when historical documents and pictures will be inaccessible to future generations due to out of date software, hardware and file formats.

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neVV9 TIL there is a statue of a blue horse with glowing laser eyes in front of the Denver International Airport nicknamed bluecifer. This statue killed his creator Luis Jiménez when a section fell on him.
QNDOd TIL Taliban leader Mullah Omar lived close to US bases when he was one of the most wanted men in the world
GAAdg TIL that humanities ancestors used to be able to synthesize Vitamin C in their body, but lost the ability due to mutation, analog to other species.
0w1B5 TIL that Ray Parker Jr. was a highly sought after session guitarist, playing on hits by Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, and more - long before Ghostbusters. Playing in clubs and gigging at 15 years old, the young Parker ended up making more money than his father in a year.
nWal7 TIL The 1741 HMS Wager shipwreck, 6 months suffering on South Chilean Island, 60 crew mutinied leaving Captain Cheap with all the sick men and no chance to survive. The mutineers arrived in London in 1842. Cheap hiked the Andes, nearly starved in jail but arrived in London to see the mutineers hung.