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TIL Madonna turned down a role in The Matrix, one of the biggest regrets of her career

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0dAgM TIL the first Ariane 5 launch failed because software engineers left redundant code from the previous version of the rocket. A 64-bit FP variable was made as an input to a 16 bit integer, resulting in an integer overflow that crashed the rocket's launch computer.
loXaN TIL the X-Files episode "Home" was so twisted, dark, and disturbing that it only aired on Fox once, was banned from re-runs on the network, and disappeared until the show re-aired on cable channel FX.
69ma8 TIL the 1908 Tunguska event flattened over 80 million trees across 830 square miles in Siberia, caused by an asteroid explosion in the atmosphere that left no impact crater.
pa7A TIL that Israel attempted to bomb American and British civilians in Egypt and blame it on the Muslim Brotherhood in order to destabilize and occupy the country. Israel denied the entire affair for 51 years, but then awarded the Israeli participants in 2005.
ZL4B TIL That JRR Tolkien’s tombstone engraving reads “Beren” and his wives’ reads “Lúthien”, in reference to the “Tale of Beren and Lúthien”. A love story between a man and and elf-maiden, set 6500 years prior to Lord of the Rings.