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TIL that several airlines who aired the movie “Rain Man” deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents, except for Quantas, who even promoted one of the movie’s writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline.

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QJyde TIL that scientists were able to store an operating system and a film on DNA and recover it without any errors
KYr4Q TIL the 1953 Miller experiment simulated early Earth’s conditions- exposing a mixture of water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen to electric sparks. It showed organic compounds like amino acids form from simple molecules, offering insights into how life could have originated from non-living matter.
R5Doa TIL that an unplugged microwave carries enough residual current to kill you, even if it's been unplugged for months. So never try to repair a broken microwave unless you know how to discharge the capacitor.
6LQZ TIL that in 1971, when Frank Sinatra couldn’t get a ringside ticket to Ali & Frazier’s “Fight of the Century”, he managed to get a press pass to shoot photos for LIFE magazine instead.
p8Aoe TIL that in 1999 Linux users protested infront of a Microsoft building to get their version of Windows 98 refunded which was bound to purchasing a PC. This shed some light on the rather scummy refund procedure Microsoft had but in the end no one got their money back.