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TIL during the 2008 financial crisis, Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ made a $9 billion investment in Morgan Stanley, to keep it from collapsing. The emergency deal was confirmed on Columbus Day, when banks are closed, so the money couldn't be wired - so Mitsubishi UFJ wrote out a $9,000,000,000 cheque

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XEDN8 TIL that after losing all four engines, the pilot of British Airways flight 9 calmly addressed the passengers, telling them "we have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
PYdmn TIL there's Mega Man comic-book series licensed by Capcom called "Novas Aventuras de Megaman" made by Brazilians, and is considered controversial for changing the plot and featuring partial nudity, gore, and swearing.
GAmJJ TIL that a rollover error in a radiotherapy machine’s computer system meant the sufficient checks were not ran before the machine delivered the dosage. Several people were delivered upwards of 80,000 rads and subsequently died from the overdose.
mxKwO TIL that "fart" is one of the oldest words in the English language, and can be traced back to its Proto-Indo-European roots through its cognates in other European languages and Sanskrit
kODa5 TIL in 1948, when Britain started their publicly funded National Health Service (NHS), the American Medical Association (AMA) ran an unprecedented campaign to turn public opinion against a national health service in USA, which had wide spread support at the end of World War 2.