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TIL That the Sony Vaio Logo represents the integration between Analogue and Digital Technology. the VA being an Analogue Wave, and the IO representing Binary

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mx6OE TIL a border collie named “Pickles” recovered the stolen FIFA World Cup in 1966.
VBMBQ TIL that actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was the key person behind a WW2 water-borne deception force that created enough German uncertainty that they held back an entire German Reserve Division in Sicily at the time of the Allied landings there. Called the Beach Jumpers, also known as the "BJ factor".
4976 TIL 1208 wooden crates filled with gold were shipped out of Poland in 1939. To this day, no one knows who received it.
8a0EV TIL Little Richard was an ordained minister, and officiated the weddings of several celebrities, including Tom Petty, Cyndi Lauper, Demi Moore/Bruce Willis, and Stevie Van Zandt
BkVL TIL of Y2k38, or the Year 2038 Problem, when a signed 32-bit integer will no longer be large enough to store the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch.