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TIL that the Mariner 1 probe, which was meant to orbit Venus, failed because of a missing hyphen in a line of code.

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GAk71 TIL that Clint Eastwood - at the height of his "silent and violent gunslinger" fame - starred in a big-budget western musical called Paint Your Wagon. At nearly 3 hours long, the film was not well reviewed. Eastwood's song "I Talk to the Trees" was singled out for derision.
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