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TIL the Doomsday rule is an algorithm to find the day of the week for a given date. It takes advantage of each year having a certain day, called the doomsday, upon which certain dates fall; e.g, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, & last day of Feb all occur on the same day of the week in any year

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QJyDa If you’ve ever travelled on a commercial airplane, there’s a likely chance you’ve noticed those little white swirls in the center of those engines on the wings. It may seem straightforward: to keep people on the ground advised when the turbofan is spinning, right? But that doesn’t explain everything.
w8NE TIL Bill Murray thinks the 2004 Hong Kong Comedy Kung Fu Hustle is “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”.
4Xvgg TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
VMxMm TIL In 2007 Tacoma Self Storage was visited by a flock of birds. One of the birds landed atop the neon sign and accidentally hit the switch on the ‘S’. Ever since the ‘S’ has been turned off every Black Friday, going dark to make the season bright.
BJrx TIL of a straight Christian man who spent a year of his life as a gay man, including coming out to his family, getting a job as a barista at a gay café and enlisting a friend to act as his boyfriend. The experience radically changed his view of religion and he now views homosexuality as acceptable.