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TIL that Quincy Jones composed the music for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro

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gd0b TIL of a group of people who believe they slid from a different timeline into ours. Among other things, they remember Mandela dying in the 80s and New Zealand being located north of Australia, not south.
KOnMG TIL in 1997 a division by zero on the USS Yorktown's database system brought down all the machines on the ship's network, causing the propulsion system to fail.
kOOA7 TIL that China killed off two AI chatbots after they start criticising communism and praising the US
mxQKE TIL that if a diesel engine can draw fuel from an unintended source, like excess combustible gas that is in the air, it will have a runaway and experience overspeeding at RPMs of up to 10X the engines rated capacity.
7rBgL TIL it was a long-held belief that redheads needed more anaesthesia while undergoing surgery. A recent study has proven this false, but many in the anaesthesiologist profession still believe it to be true.