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TIL Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry starred in a Windows 95 video guide

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wonko TIL the French writer Guy de Maupassant ate lunch at the base of the Eiffel Tower almost every day because he hated its design so much, it was the one place in Paris where he couldn't see it.
4ov5 TIL that in 1962, special, hi-tech locks were added to all U.S. nuclear missiles that would prevent launch without a secret, unique launch code. However, military officials quietly circumvented this safeguard by setting every locK to “00000000”. The codes remained unchanged until 1977.
NXj0M TIL of the Baliem Valley, where a stone age agricultural civilization managed to develop and remain uncontacted by the outside world until being accidentally rediscovered by an aerial reconnaissance flight in 1938.
woddo TIL that several counties in Michigan have nonsense names. 19th century geographer Henry Schoolcraft invented meaningless "Indian-sounding" place names by combining Latin, Arabic, and Ojibwe sounds.
QNZwp TIL that there's a Fungi that absorbs radiation and is feeding on the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant.