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TIL Boeing's 737 MAX software was outsourced to $9-an-hour Indian engineers

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16wgd TIL After Poland was partitioned between the European powers in the late 18th century, the Ottoman and Persian Empires were the only countries in the world to not accept it, with the Ottomans maintaining a Polish ambassador
5wNB TIL The singer-songwriter Alice Cooper pays yearly royalties to the members of the band, Alice Cooper, for the right to use the name commercially as it was originally the copyrighted band name before he adopted it as his own.
76or TIL Stockholm, Sweden up until 1952 had a massive telephone tower with approx. 5500 telephone lines connected to it
kO6x4 TIL that Josef Mengele's skeleton is now used as an educational aid for students studying medicine at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
xxKk TIL OJ Simpson was originally cast to play Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.