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I remember hearing about this (not sure if there's a better article; this is literally the first one I found): https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-h....

The story goes that Mario 64 speedrunner accidentally triggered a glitch which was thought to require that a particular value is "true" (Mario is touching a ceiling) which was not in this case. The following glitch hunt had many people concluding that the most likely thing that happened was a bit-flip via cosmic radiation which caused the exact distance change which could have otherwise been caused by a different but similar glitch.




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