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TIL a US Navy battleship was shut down for 3 hours because its computer divided by zero, causing the whole network to crash.

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1VJV TIL During an aborted suicide attempt, Scott Stapp shot 36 rounds into every award he had won with Creed.
XEJE8 TIL that "dashboard" was originally a barrier of wood or leather at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect a driver from mud or other debris "dashed up" by the horses' hooves. Today it refers to the evolution of that flat board which now contains displays, gauges and instruments.
E1AZW TIL that Sexual jealousy evolved to motivate 'mate guarding' for both sexes, according to evolutionary psychology. Males are motivated to ensure offspring is theirs and females to secure paternal care.
XEDlj TIL that on December 28, 1973, after having worked for 16 hours a day without breaks for six weeks, the crew of the Skylab space station mutineed and shut off communications with ground control for a day
PYxxg TIL of Mercedes de Acosta, a writer who had many salacious love affairs with famous women in the 1920s and 30s, including Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo. She reportedly claimed, “I can get any woman away from any man.”