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TIL the Beatles are responsible for funding the invention of the CT scan.

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kJ0Vd TIL the Normandy beach names of Utah & Omaha were selected at random, when a general asked two NCOs where they were from. The British & Canadian names were abbreviations for certain fish: goldfish, swordfish & jellyfish. Jelly was changed to Juno in honour of the wife of one of the officers
QNRAa TIL that the bus service from London, England to Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) was considered to be the longest bus route in the world. The bus service, which started in 1957, was routed to India via Belgium, Yugoslavia and North Western India.This route is also known as the Hippie Route.
yQx7X TIL Dexter Holland, the frontman of the american rock band The Offspring, has his own brand of hot sauce called "Gringo Bandito"
KYLOQ TIL - In 1967, Pink Floyd held the first significant concert using quadrophonic (surround sound) technology.
16DPd TIL that fixing a software bug made the bug worse. While fixing a flaw in the Atari BASIC language that causes the computer to freeze, the programmer saw the same code elsewhere, and changed that too. Doing so reintroduced the same problem he had fixed, but now the lock up occurs much more often.