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TIL Phones have an asterisk and pound sign because when Bell Labs designed the first touch-tone phone, their system had two tones which were not assigned values. So, they threw in * and #.

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VMKoZ TIL Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" was inspired by a young lady he just met, named Amy Lehrhaupt. He tried to contact her for years, but she never appeared, Later he discovered she died before the 1st movie came out. At the of the 3rd movie, on the credits, we can read "Dedicated to to Amy"
woDpJ TIL a common black garden worker ant lives 1-2 years, and the queen 15+
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xV79o TIL whales earwax acts as a hearing aid. The wax has a similar density to water and allows sound to travel through the ear canal into the inner ear unimpeded—something that would be impossible if the ear was filled with air.
oB5EA TIL : that you cannot copy files above 4gb to a USB drive which is using the default FAT32 format. One needs to format it to a format called exFAT to be able to do so.