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TIL that when Rob Lowe learned of his tv shows cancellation halfway through making the first season, he made sure the last half of the season was “as absurd as possible”, ending the show by revealing himself to be a serial killer and then committing a murder suicide.

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4G05 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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Y5Bv TIL Braille was originally developed as ‘Sonography’, a means for French spies in the Napoleonic Wars to communicate without the use of light. Louis Braille would later point out the flaws in the original code, creating the version we use today.
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