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TIL The phrase is actually “Anchor’s Aweigh” not “Away”

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v1YnL TIL Doctor Amanda Hess who was in the hospital preparing to give birth put her own delivery on hold to deliver another woman’s baby after hearing that the child was in distress and her doctor had left the hospital for a break. After the on-call doctor came back doctor Hess went and had her own baby.
Br6yr TIL a race condition bug in the Therac-25 (a radiation therapy machine) caused some patients to receive radiation doses "that were hundreds of times greater than normal". The bug arose after technicians became 'to efficient' at entering commands causing code to execute in an unintended order.
epyn TIL that Dave Canterbury from Dual Survivor was fired from the show for completely lying about his military/survival experience.
EoKd TIL, Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing. The deceleration is occurring at about 17 milliseconds per 100 years. This will have the effect of lengthening our days, but it’s happening so slowly that it could be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.
7rXmb TIL The Invictus games for disabled Veterans was started by Prince Harry after he was pulled from Afghanistan and they put him on a flight with four unconscious soldiers missing limbs and wrapped in plastic. One holding a piece of shrapnel that had been removed from his head.