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TIL of the "Ice City" dug into a glacier in the Alps during WW1 in the front between Austro-Hungary and Italy.

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7O4X TIL the official business and office attire in Hawaii is the aloha shirt instead of a suit and tie
WWP9 TIL two-thirds of private prison contracts have “occupancy guarantees” requiring states to pay a fee if they cannot provide a certain number of inmates.
avV9 TIL, the whole Y2K doomsday scare will probably happen again in 2038.
KOl9 TIL that during his tenure as Bogota mayor, Antanas Mockus hired 20 mimes to follow and mock those ignoring pedestrian and traffic laws. The program was so popular, he hired 400 more.
vPpw4 TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.