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

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M7RAB TIL Macaulay Culkin's legal name is "Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin."
awEjZ TIL Anthony Burgess sent a preliminary draft of A Clockwork Orange to Rolling Stone in place of an article and Hunter S. Thompson wrote a letter rejecting Burgess' "limey bullshit" and calling him "cheapjack scum."
Pvwe TIL Conan O'Brien credited “The Simpsons” with saving him. Prior to being hired on he was experiencing a personal and professional slump. He abruptly quit his SNL writing job with no plans other than aimlessly walking the streets of NYC for inspiration.
W7E5Y TIL Mt. Everest grows by about 2 cm every year.
E1aNp TIL about the Lion of Lucerne, a 30-foot long lion carved into the side of a quarry. The monument is dedicated to the Swiss Guards who were massacred during the French Revolution. Dying from a spear, the lion was described by Mark Twain as "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world."