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Today I learned Y2K was never an issue because people spent years and over $100 billion USD to keep disaster from happening.

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4p8X TIL - The location of Tony Stark’s mansion on the Pacific Ocean is the same cliff from Planet of the Apes where the statue of liberty was sticking out of the sand. Point Dume
OGDWR TIL Hawaii is the only state in the United States that is free of rabies
GYLA1 TIL of Tarrare, an unusual man with an insatiable appetite who was able to eat vast amounts of food whole without chewing, to include live animals and human corpses. He was slim, but with enormous teeth and slack wrinkly skin. His body was also hot to the touch and would sweat profusely after eating
4LJ5 TIL that after filming the freeway scenes for The Matrix: Reloaded, the film makers, instead of disposing of the set, chose to donate it, in pieces, to charity in Mexico to be turned into low-cost housing.
eYgb TIL that Rose Kennedy-The mother of John F. Kennedy, Outlived four of her children, her husband, 3 grandchildren, 3 son in laws, and Jacqueline Kennedy before dying at the age of 104.