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TIL that Winston Churchill was the third great grandson of an American Major in the Revolutionary War.

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pXXQ TIL in 1900 Isaac Cline violated weather service policy and unilaterally issued a hurricane warning to warn the citizens of Galveston, TX that a major storm was headed their way.
0dvZ1 TIL A TPS report ("test procedure specification") is a document used to describe testing procedures and testing processes, particularly in software engineering. It describes how the tester will physically run the test, the physical set-up required, and the procedural steps needed.
X0owj TIL in 1971 a Time Dilation experiment had 2 flights w/atomic clocks go around the world to prove Einstein's theories of relativity (time moves slower as you approach the speed of light, and/or when exposed to less gravity). The clocks gained 0.15 microseconds compared to the ground based clock.
1Ek7 TIL in 2002 a 15-year-old boy tried to replicate the attacks on 9/11 by crashing a plane into an office building
jNGPN TIL that the Soviet Union won the 10th Correspondence Chess Olympiad, which started in 1987 and ended in... 1995. East Germany took 3rd.