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TIL updating software is such a pain that only 64% of computer professionals do it automatically or immediately, and only 38% of regular users

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ANB0a TIL Christ Pike who in 1996 was the youngest women to ever be sentenced to death attempted to murder a fellow inmate in 2001 with a shoelace and in 2012 an escape plan was discovered that was plotted by a pen pal boyfriend of hers who had been driving from New jersey to Tennessee to visit her.
1NyO TIL that there is evidence that humans as recently as the Greeks could not see the color blue and described “blue” things like the ocean as “wine-dark” as written in the Odyssey.
nYn7 TIL Stonehenge has been deconstructed and rebuilt multiple times, making it virtually impossible to know precisely how the monument was originally oriented.
X9yE TIL that Black and White American’s use different variations of sign language (American Sign Language and Black American sign Language) because like other schools, schools for the deaf and blind were also segregated. BASL is still taught in the South, despite segregation no longer existing.
M6AK TIL the Kargil war in 1999 between India and Pakistan is the only war ever between two countries where both have weapons of mass destruction.