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TIL If you search “Doge Meme” on YouTube it changes all the font on the website… such wow.

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V8DG TIL Researchers at MIT studied phantom traffic jams (jams that arise in the absence of any obstacles) and found they are inevitable at a certain vehicle density threshold. The waves of traffic are named Jamitons, and are similar to the equations that describe detonation waves produced by explosions.
0d4BA TIL there are actual work reasons to have these things
78wRM TIL the modern banjo is derived from a mix of West African skin instruments and European neck & string instruments. It was first recorded as being used by Caribbean slaves in the 17th century.
gnrL TIL: KFC use to have a spin-off restaurant called “Kentucky Roast Beef”. (This one was in Bellevue, WA.)
16RW4 TIL: For decades, people pronounced the year 2000 as "twenty hundred" since it came after the 1800s and 1900s. But for the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", Stanley Kubrick included specific instructions for journalists to refer to the movie as "two thousand and one"