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TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout is ~147 years old and took ~5 years to perfect

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WkD69 TIL that in 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 stayed aloft for 32 minutes after the 747SR's tail ripped off. During the time before the plane crashed into Mount Takamagahara several of the 509 passengers aboard jotted down "last minute" notes to their loved ones on cocktail napkins.
neB9P TIL that 2 out of the 3 members of LFO (Lyte Funky Ones) have passed away. Rich Cronin at 36 and Devin Lima at 41.
KBZJ TIL that the 1972 Miami Dolphins are the only team to win the Super Bowl with a perfect season. There’s an urban legend that every season, whenever the last remaining undefeated NFL team loses its first game, all surviving members of the ‘72 Dolphins open bottles of champagne in celebration.
nWNO9 TIL that Bram Stoker’s Dracula was inspired by an Irish novella about a lesbian vampire from Austria
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