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TIL France once tried to establish decimal time (changing the length of seconds, hours, weeks, months) and it didn't go well.
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TIL that in 2019, Sonos used to have a "recycle mode" that intentionally bricked speakers so they could not be reused - it made it impossible for recycling firms to resell it or do anything else but strip it for parts.
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TIL that when Mario Party 8 was released in 2007, it was banned in the UK for containing the word "spastic", which is considered an ableist slur for sufferers of cerebral palsy there.