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TIL Microsoft has a team keeping billion of devices with correct time. They call themselves 'Time Lords'.

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aMGy TIL Jim Carrey sucked on Shannon Wirrey’s real boob which had milk in them in “Me, Myself & Irene”. He felt so humiliated that he had to clear the set before each take.
xo5b TIL In 1883, a writer attempted to make a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook - despite not knowing English himself. Popularized in America by Mark Twain, “English As She Is Spoke” is filled with such nonsensical English idioms as “to craunch the marmoset” and “to buy cat in pocket.”
1vMd TIL There is a newly discovered cave fish with its anus on it’s head. It’s possible that it poops sperm into it’s mouth to fertilize eggs through it’s gills.
1a178 TIL that when cyber criminals made off with $81m (and almost got away with $1bn), Bangladesh Bank was using second-hand switches worth $10 and had no firewalls in place.
nbeP TIL along the busy highways of Australia, volunteers hand out coffee, tea , and snacks to sleepy drivers. The Stop, Revive and Survive program has been running for more than 20 years with one objective: to reduce road collisions by alleviating driver fatigue.