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TIL Steve Irwin discovered a new species of turtle in the early eighties, in 1990 he brought one in for identification and the new species was officially named Elseya irwini.

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awQ6M TIL a computer program named “World One,” which was developed in 1973 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), predicts 2020 to be the year when a series of catastrophic events kick off a 20-year process of a slow demise of human civilization.
PYWAg TIL an Eastern Air Lines flight crashed because the entire crew was so occupied with a burnt-out landing gear light that they failed to notice that autopilot had disconnected.
wLjd8 TIL all iPhones since 6s have the capability to be used as a digital scale, but Apple bans scale apps because the concept of a scale app is “not appropriate”
69MDY TIL that Aretha Franklin's handwritten will was found in a spiral notebook wedged between couch cushions months after she died, but a court ruled it was valid
5gpp TIL in the early 1900s, the British equivalent of “That’s what she said” was “Said the actress to the bishop.”