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TIL of the 2038 Problem, a computer science problem theorized to be worse than Y2K. 2038 day will occur on January 19th at 3:14:07 UTC, when the number of seconds since the clock started (January 1st 1971), passes the maximum integer in 32 bits (2^31).

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rRVKd TIL about Archie "The Greek" Karas, a gambler who ran $50 to $40 million in 3 years, then lost it all
JYjnl TIL about a town in Pennsylvania named Phoenixville that celebrates their town every year by burning down a giant wooden bird.
KOJ TIL that a female Allied spy parachuting into France in WWII greeted her Resistance contact with “don’t give me that French shit” and proceeded to kill a German sentry with her bare hands.
e0JB4 TIL That liquor diluted with water is absorbed faster than straight alcohol.
D1Mxj TIL in 1977, two American colleges, Carleton College and St. Olaf College, members of NCAA's Division III conference, attempted to play an American football game using purely metric measurements