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gMx4A TIL that you paid more for your HDD in 2012 because after Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco was hit by targeted malware W32.DistTrack.Shamoon, its owners sent the company's private airplane fleet abroad to purchase every available hard drive, causing their global shortage and price increase.
x6BOB TIL that in 1980 only 136 prints of The Empire Strikes Back in 70mm were produced. These also featured magnetic Six-Track Dolby Stereo sound.
J1ORB TIL "RE Engine", a game engine developed originally for Resident Evil 7, does not stand for "Resident Evil Engine" but actually stands for "REach for the moon Engine."
0do7v TIL the line where tourists take photos at the Royal Observatory Greenwich marks the historic Prime Meridian. Since 1988 the current standard prime meridian is 102.5m off the original line, hence if you look at your GPS on your phone at the historic line it won't show exactly zero degrees longitude
e04B6 TIL Two metal detectorists who thought they'd found a stash of Roman gold coins they estimated to be worth £250,000 discovered the coins were actually a worthless prop for TV show The Detectorists.