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N7LEQ TIL : Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962 under pressure from the USA and GB
Kj7R TIL John Hughes often wrote his scripts (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club) to take place over a single day so that there’s few if any costume changes so he can have freedom in the editing process
OGjV4 TIL that the UK equivalent of the DEFCON warning system was called BIKINI. The name was randomly selected by a computer and was only replaced in 2006.
GA6aj TIL that in 2000, to prevent peanut allergies, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended children zero to three years old to avoid them, which backfired, and caused peanut allergy cases to grow dramatically.
W7pZB TIL the Therac 25, a computer controlled radiation therapy machine, killed six people as a result of a computer bug that allowed the machine to inject lethal doses of radiation into patients.