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TIL that Bender’s apartment door number, 00100100, is binary for the dollar sign $.

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nWx5P TIL of Columbia, the personification of the United States for over 200 years, and was even the alternate name for the United States. She is the reason for the District of Columbia, British Columbia, etc. She was replaced by Lady Liberty, and was gradually forgotten after WWI.
Mmpb TIL that one liter of gasoline can deliver 35 megajoule of energy. This is the amount of energy one square meter of land receives from the sun, in the best conditions, in approximately ten hours.
OGQL6 TIL that Telex, a telecommunication service that provides text-based message exchange for teleprinter devices at receiving and sending locations, declined as fax machines grew in popularity in the 1980s.
VMlv8 TIL The rotating door was created by a man in the later part of the 1800s so he wouldn't have to hold the door open for the women or get stuck holding it for everyone. An added bonus was that it reduced heating and cooling costs by 30%, making it much more energy efficient.
Lkgm0 TIL that in 2005, after Rob Schneider called movie critic Patrick Goldstein unqualified because he’d never won the Pulitzer Prize, famous film critic Roger Ebert told Schneider that, as a Pulitzer winner, HE was qualified to review the film, and that “Your movie sucks.”