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TIL that NASA wouldn’t launch the space shuttle if the mission ran from December to January because the on board computers were not designed to handle the end if year rollover.

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R5Bk7 TIL that, at one point in time, the Habsburg monarchy (predecessor of Austria-Hungary) occupied the territory of today's Belgium.
7doX TIL in the Japanese version of Lotus 123 the audible error “beep” was removed because it would be very shameful for the computer to tell everybody that you made a mistake.
wm57 TIL the US State Department spent $630,000 to increase Facebook ‘likes’
XEeD8 TIL the US Postmaster General is the 2nd highest paid US government official behind the president.
1bLP TIL that a black fur trader in the American West got captured by a band of Crow Indians and got mistaken for a Chiefs long lost son. He eventually became their Chief himself.