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TIL The Space Shuttle never flew on new year’s day or eve because its computers couldn’t handle a year rollover.

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R5wO8 TIL That even though Dalton Trumbo is known to be the creator of 'Roman Holiday' the son of the man who fronted the script (Trumbo was blacklisted) refused to turn over the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay to Trumbo's widow in 1993.
0wgAM TIL: A "hobo" is someone who travels and finds work. A "tramp" travels, but mostly does not work. A "bum" neither travels nor works.
KObW9 TIL Once hailed as the future of television, 3D TV's have not been produced by any manufacturer since 2016. 3D TV is dead.
mkgy TIL that eating ripe bananas help combat abnormal cells and the more dark spots a banana has the better the anti-cancer quality.
lWka TIL about Thalaikoothal, the ritual euthanasia of the elderly by forced consumption of water until renal failure still practiced in the Tamil state in India