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TIL If you SIGINFO a sleep process on BSD or MacOS it'll print the time remaining...

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P1ARE TIL the serjeant at arms of the house of commons in the United Kingdom since 2008 has been a woman, an arab man, then a black man.
LQ01P TIL Pope Leo I, Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 AD until his death in 461 AD singlehandedly persuaded Atilla the Hun to back down from his invasion of Italy.
aEvA TIL the first drinking straw was designed to have a diameter slightly smaller than the typical lemon pip, as the inventor was tired of getting lemon seeds in his mouth when drinking lemonade.
boR7 TIL Calvin Coolidge was so unknown as Vice President that when Major League Baseball sent him complimentary tickets they misspelled his name.
OoG97 TIL the first tv commercial of the world was aired on july 1941 in USA. the name of the company was Bulova watches. the ad was shown befofe a baseball match between brooklyn dodgers and philidelphia phillies.