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TIL At one point, 50% of CDs manufactured worldwide were AOL trial discs.

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jNXYE TIL Tom Attridge, the pilot of the first jet aircraft to shoot itself down. He fired two bursts midway through a shallow dive. As the trajectory of the cannon rounds decayed, they ultimately crossed paths with the jet as it continued its descent. Though it was a crash-landing, he survived.
awoEZ Today I learned that Stanford did a study on how memes and other internet ideas spread.
7rMjM TIL that when Mt. Everest was found to be the tallest mountain on Earth at 29000ft (the estimate at the time), an extra 2 feet were added on top of the number because they feared if it was too round of a number, the public would think they had picked an arbitrary number.
0wEDy TIL that the median length of stay before death in a nursing home is just 5 months, with three months of life for men and eight months for women.
EggYW TIL that The Goodies' classic episode "Kitten Kong" (S02E07) is the only episode from the series officially missing from the BBC archives, with the original video tape having been wiped for reuse in the 1970s.