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TIL Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.

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YpLnW TIL that the highest-grossing stop motion animated film is Chicken Run (2000), beating out Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
LQjPm TIL that In 2003, during Belgium's elections, an unexpected anomaly occurred: one candidate received 4,096 extra votes. Investigations revealed that a cosmic ray had likely struck the computer system, causing a bit flip—a phenomenon where a binary digit changes state, leading to computational error
4Rvb TIL Families of People Executed Because of Their Tiananmen Square Activities Were Sent a Bill for the Ammunition Used by the Chinese Govt.
BrKdr TIL that some trees can survive temperatures as low as -269 degree Celsius. They have evolved a supercooling method where the insides of their cells turn into glass. Its a kind of suspended animation where the molecules don't really move.
6EEPw TIL that there is a Capability Im-Maturity Model, a classification for software organizations who don't measure up to CMM Level 1