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TIL the earliest known public museum existed in Neo-Babylon, 500BC

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ZgwR TIL that after the “Miracle on the Hudson”, where an Airbus A320 ditched into the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese, the US Department of Agriculture and Wildlife services gassed 1,235 Canadian Geese and coated 1,739 of their eggs in corn oil to suffocate the offspring.
gMZWb TIL that Monty Python's "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" is the top requested funeral song in the U.K.
D17MJ TIL that in 2005 an art collector had Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses play Rock Paper Scissors to decide who got to sell his twenty million dollar collection.
gG5L TIL that Annie Dookhan, a crime lab chemist in MA, intentionally mishandled thousands of samples. As a result, more than 20,000 convictions had to be dropped en masse.
1a1g4 TIL it's called Firmware because it exists on the boundary between Hardware and Software