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TIL in 1945, Grace Hopper traced a computer problem to a moth between the relays, then taped it up into her log book and wrote, “First actual case of a bug being found.” This popularized the terms “bug” and “debug” and her log book is now stored within the Smithsonian.

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WAnN TIL that a man and his friends made it from NY to CA in 28 hours and 50 minutes going the fastest they can in a Mercedes
6Wgw TIL: the word “thug” is derived from the Cult of Thuggee in India, who were hired assassins who killed 2,000,000 people and were only stopped when the British arrived with modern crime detection methods in the 1830’s
LNjd TIL King John of Bohemia (who was blind) died in battle (where his retainers would lead his horse into the thick of the fighting, where he would then flail his sword around) was reported to have said: “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
0mEy TIL that the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was so fast, the designers did not even consider evasive maneuvers; the pilot was simply instructed to accelerate. This could effectively elude any threat, including surface-to-air missiles.
MaLK TIL that the Oregon legislature ochestrated a bipartisan Rickroll in their statehouse by inserting lyric snippets into their floor speeches and stitching them together, and released the video on YouTube on April Fools Day.