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TIL the Paris airport still runs on Windows 3.1

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oR547 TIL the word "debugging" originated when Grace Hopper found a literal moth causing a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 and taped it into her logbook
b9KpQ TIL the 1847 NY Rural Cemetery Act authorizing nonprofit commercial graveyards on (then) rural land, and an 1852 law against new burials in Manhattan, have led to Queens containing over 5 million graves within its Cemetery Belt, such that the borough’s “dead population” now doubles its live one.
x6avw TIL there are no such things as teacup piggies, only baby piglets who will eventually grow to regular full-size hogs.
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gMGMb TIL a homeless man found a 10 000$ check on the street meant for a real estate broker and found a way to return it. So, touched, the broker awarded him a place to live and arranged for a job interview. A year later, he was on the board of directors of one of their foundations.