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TIL: Zilog has announced that they will soon stop taking orders their 8-bit Z80 CPU in 2024, after almost 50 years in production. It was a common CPU in many homecomputers, arcade machines and some game consoles in the '70s and '80s. It's surprisingly enough (as of now) still manufactured.

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WkYad TIL that Enligsh is the universal “language of the skies”. All pilots must learn and speak English, regardless of their origin.
jNpOM TIL A North Korean submarine got stuck in a fishing net
xDd5 TIL words and phrases that are often misspoken or misspelled in a certain way (e.g. “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”) are called eggcorns, with the term itself being an eggcorn for the word “acorn”.
d8XkK TIL that many elevators in Denmark have a button labeled 'I fart', which translates as 'In motion'. When Queen Elizabeth II visited in 1960, strips of tape were used to cover these buttons in any elevators she used.
mxEey TIL a camera losded with 8mm film was discovered in a farmer’s field in Michigan. The film depicted a man lying in the street in a pool of blood. The FBI soon discovered the footage had been intended for use in a music video… and the corpse” was none other than NIN founder Trent Reznor.