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TIL that in 1983 a Mexcian Gulftstream jet was forced to make an emergency landing on the Mallow Racecourse near Cork, Ireland and subsequently was stuck there for 39 days until a locals were able to construct a temporary runway to allow the plane to take off again

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gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.
XJ76 TIL that Denmark - supposedly the happiest country in the world - is Europe’s second-largest consumer of anti-depressants.
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