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TIL of the GitHub Archive Program in which the GitHub team had a full archive of all current public repositories buried in a decommissioned coal mine in the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen

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BrYle TIL that the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the first lighthouse in the world, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, constructed during the 3rd century BC and it was built of limestone from a quarry near the coast
0drNR TIL that the man who authored the NIST manual on passwords and recommended password changes every 90 days regrets doing so. Mandatory password changes on a scheduled interval are no longer recommended by NIST.
QX7X TIL that most Ben and Jerry’s ice cream has chunks in it because Ben has anosmia and relies on “mouth-feel” when eating.
WkGBX TIL that the triangular thing in oujia board is called a planchette
Lk7DV TIL President Calvin Coolidge owned, amongst many other pets, two lions given to him by the Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.