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TIL that in Denmark, Die Hard with a Vengeance, is called ‘DIE HARD: MEGA HARD’

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woYkE TIL that the fundamentals of modern computer programming were conceived by six women who worked on the first digital computer, ENIAC, in the 1940s. The techniques they created are still used widely today, but the women were not recognised for their work for decades.
9YyRD TIL that in 1956, F-11 Tiger fighter plane shot itself down because the plane was literally going faster than its own gunfire.
9YDEm TIL of the 2008 K2 disaster, where in one day 11 climbers lost their lives on the second highest mountain in the world.
XQEP TIL that the USA had 1,104 shark attacks between 1958-2014; 35 fatal. Australia only had 665 shark attacks during the same time frame, with 232 of them fatal.
gYR8 TIL that Netflix’s catalog has shrunk by more than 2,000 titles in the past couple of years