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TIL that Windows NT immobilized an entire US Navy cruiser because of a buffer overflow error

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6Eo5J TIL that American cyclist Greg LeMond was accidentally shot with 60 shotgun pellets during a hunt, losing him 65% of his blood volume. Two years later, with 35 pellets still in his body, he won the 1989 Tour de France, becoming the first (and only) American to win the tournament twice.
wDQY TIL Phantom time hypothesis - The events from AD 614 to 911 may never have occurred at all.
78R5P TIL: King Charles III and the British Royal Family own 6.6 Billion Acres of land equivalent to one-sixth of the surface of the earth. Locations include London, rural Britain, and more than 90% of the land in Canada.
Mek40 TIL that people who take the popular Meyers-Briggs personality test twice have a 50% chance of getting completely different results the second time
d8njd TIL of a non-theistic religion called the Church of Body Modification which practises piercing, scarification, plastic surgery, firewalking, corsetry and fasting in order to live a spiritually complete life