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TIL that the first computer bug was literally a moth which got trapped inside a computer and caused it to go berserk

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8abLb TIL in 2016, Russia experienced an outbreak of Anthrax. The spores likely came from an infected deer carcass that had thawed during permafrost melt.
G8aj TIL that the Aztec Empire was one of the first societies to have mandatory education for all children regardless of gender or rank.
8eNoG TIL 14,000 years ago we had a south star called Vega, as opposed to our current north star Polaris. Vega will realign as our south star again in 12,000 years.
x6rmB TIL the band The Cardigans, makers of the famous song 'Lovefool,' got their name because they were such anglophiles at the time that they chose the word 'cardigan' because it's so British.
4Ew TIL on July 30, 1978 a city in Japan decided to switch which side of the road they drove on. It took 8 hours to turn all the traffic signs around, and cost $150 million to do the entire conversion.