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TIL - About 2-Nonenal, this is the chemical that gives old people there characteristic smell

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1YDD TIL that the term “bug” for a software malfunction became popular because it was once (in 1947) traced back to a moth stuck in the system.
8aNvL TIL that Eunice Shriver Kennedy, JFKs older sister, founded an athletics camp in 1962 for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp would go on to evolve into the Special Olympics.
6ExAm TIL that a monty python sketch repeatedly referring to SPAM (canned cooked pork that got popularized in WW2) inspired the use of the word for mass unsolicited emails
aYaA TIL that Seinfeld re-runs are sped up relative to their original versions in order to accommodate more time for commercials.
7pQx TIL: The premise for The Office (US TV series) documentary was how they handled the suicide of a co-worker mentioned in S2E8, which is also why Ryan the Temp was hired