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TIL that the Boeing 787 airliner should be rebooted every 248 days to avoid a software crash, which would lead to loss of all 4 power units and cause a real crash.

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mxOMR TIL about "Grain entrapment", when a person becomes submerged in grain and gets stuck, often suffocating beneath the corn.
rRNvM TIL nachos aren't a traditional Mexican dish. The food item was invented in the 1940s by a chef named Ignacio. The nachos themselves consisted of what leftovers he had in his kitchen at the time.
NZdP TIL of the Tunguska Event. 106 years ago today, an unexplained explosion toppled some 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in central Russia. The energy of the explosion was estimated to be ~1000x greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
65JY TIL The manliest of all men was a French commander named Marshal Ney, who directed his own execution
78kNb TIL of Shelley Jackson’s Skin Project. Each single word of her 2095 word novella is tattooed on a separate volunteer.