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TIL That I Wouldn't Notice if My Calculator Was Lying to Me

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neggW TIL Third Eye Blind sang the theme song for the movie Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
5YRLB TIL that there’s no plastic used in plastic surgery. The term comes from the Greek word “plastikus” which means “to form” or “to mold”.
BgXVk TIL that the first parking restrictions were in ancient Assyria in c700 BCE. They were made by king Sennacherib about the prohibition to park along the sacred road. The oldest parking signs read "Royal Road - let no man decrease it". The penalty was death followed by impaling outside one's own home
8bka TIL that during 9/11, the Russian government canceled military exercises in the North Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, in order to avoid provoking the US, which had raised it’s military alert readiness to DEFCON 3
dDEK7 TIL Boeing pressured the US government to impose a 300% tariff on imports of Bombardier CSeries planes. The situation got bad enough that Canada filed a complaint at the WTO against the US. Eventually, Bombardier subsequently sold a 50.01% in the plane to Boeing's main competitor, Airbus, for $1.