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TIL that Minneapolis named a series of streets after presidents - in the order of their election - to help immigrants prepare for the citizenship exam.

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djYr TIL The highest quality software ever written was the code for the space shuttle, with 1 error for every 420,000 lines of code.
yVo0X TIL I learned that a News Station fell to a prank, reporting the names of fake flight crews in relation to Asiana Airlines Flight 214, i.e. "Captain Sum Ting Wong", "Wi Tu Lo", "Ho Lee Fuk", and "Bang Ding Ow".
X06pE TIL the release of T. Rex's hit single "Get it On" ended the once-solid friendship between Marc Bolan and John Peel: Peel made clear his lack of enthusiasm for the song on air after playing his advance white label copy. They only spoke once more before Bolan's death in 1977.
OoAML TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"
rRL7o TIL: Encyclopedia Britannica was the oldest continuously published reference source in the English language. The last printed edition was published in 2010. The publisher was at that time 244 years old.