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TIL A customer was gifted overgenerous contract terms due to a misplaced comma in a contract with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. The erroneous comma radically altered the inflation-adjustment formula resulting in $70 million loss to Lockheed Martin.

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7AxX TIL that The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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65Y7 TIL that there have been more than 600 assassination attempts on Fidel Castro, making him the number one person to survive the most assassination attempts.
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