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TIL that software bugs in a radiation therapy machine were responsible for killing 3 people with high doses of radiation

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aLRN TIL that the great white sharks are not on top of the ocean food chain any more. There is a unknown creature taking bites out of them! 50 great white sharks this past year have shown up half eaten.
9PrB TIL that Mattel sued the band Aqua because of the double entendres in the song ‘Barbie Girl’. The judge awarded in favour of Aqua, saying “The parties are advised to chill”
BRlb TIL Matt Stone & Trey Parker had people warn them that there would be Mormon protests surrounding their musical “The Book of Mormon”, but the church has had a great sense of humor about it, even advertising in some BOM playbills with phrases like “the book is always better”
R7on8 TIL the Tesseract, or Hypercube, isn't the only 4 dimensional shape, and there are 5 others recognized as Regular, including one with 600 corners.
wR11 TIL Philadelphia has a section of railway, home to a heroin epidemic so bad, that even the police have trouble going there due to the horrible conditions.