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TIL: in an effort to catch a bug in Windows Task manager, a developer added his phone number with a message to call his home phone number, the message was left in the release version of windows, leading to multiple people from around the world ringing his home phone number to report the error.

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On6L TIL: Crows can remember an individual human’s face for up to two years, and warn other crows if the person is dangerous
E5L7 TIL in 1971, LANSA Flight 508 crashed over the Amazon Jungle, killing all crew and 85 of 86 passengers. The sole survivor was a 17 y.o. girl, who fell 2 miles down into the rain forest strapped to her seat, survived the fall, and walked the jungle injured for 10 days until she was rescued by locals
neW5P TIL that when you fall in love, your serotonin levels drop to a point that rivals a person with OCD, which is why you get an obsessive wanting for your partner.
wZm7 TIL a person with $20,000 in student loans paying at a 6% interest rate will pay almost $100 per month in interest alone, or more than $3 per day
xWZ0 TIL that the dunking booth or “dunk tank”, popular in fairs and for charity events, evolved from “African dodger”, where baseballs would be thrown at the head of a black man, and hits awarded with prizes. This ‘game’ was popular in carnivals until the 1940s