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TIL Boyzone's Keith Duffy's full name is Keith Peter Thomas Francis Julian John Duffy.

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KOwAR TIL that a toilet break once sank a submarine. When the captain of U-1206 was unable to operate the toilet, he called in an engineer, who flipped the wrong switch, causing water to flood in and filled the ship with chlorine gas. The ship surfaced, was spotted, and was attacked and scuttled.
d8voE TIL That a Single Casino Dominates the Economy of Saipan.
NvyQ TIL of Balloonfest ‘86, a publicity stunt where the United Way of Cleveland released 1.4 million balloons over the city. The balloons tied up highway and air traffic, caused lawsuits seeking millions in damages, and interfered with a Coast Guard search for two boaters who were later found drowned.
9w0p6 TIL that from 2016 to 2023, John Deere's End User Agreement prohibited non-authorized technicians from servicing any component or system that had embedded software. Farmers could not repair their own equipment nor get third-party repair services.
v9nB TIL the word “decimate” comes from the Roman army’s tradition of killing one out of ten soldier when a large group had committed a crime. The word literally means “removal of one tenth”, rather than devastation, as it means today.