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TIL that Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history

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4X0PR TIL Royal Bank of Canada has a program that draws students for a summer-long challenge to develop solutions to real-world business problems, like detecting sophisticated cyber bots. The bank files patents to protect the technology and use students' innovation in their business
mxn5p TIL about Horace Greasley, a British POW who escaped a German POW camp more than 200 times in five years to visit his girlfriend, a local woman named Rosa Rauchbauch. He returned each time with contraband for his fellow captives
jNmYM TIL when brainstorming the time travel plot for Star Trek: First Contact, they considered sending the crew back to the Renaissance, befriending Leonardo da Vinci, and having sword fights alongside phaser fights. The idea was scrapped for being too campy and Patrick Stewart refused to wear tights.
7n9x TIL Kevin Spacey was originally slated to play the president in Independence Day. Studio executives insisted the part be rewritten for Bill Pullman because they felt Spacey was incapable of starring in blockbusters. He won his first academy award 10 months later.
VNJm TIL showers in Alcatraz had only one heat setting which was moderately hot so that the inmates couldn’t acclimate to the surrounding waters.