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TIL that Japan's rail workers use pointing-and-calling, a system of associating one’s tasks with physical movements and vocalizations to prevent errors. It is known to reduce workplace errors by up to 85 percent, according to one 1996 study.

EglJP TIL the same cinematographer that worked on iconic films Metropolis (1927) and Dracula (1931) also worked on I Love Lucy (1951). Karl Freund was born in Austria-Hungary in 1890 and pioneered the Unchained Camera Technique in Germany before coming to the US in 1929. He died in 1969.
Qr0d TIL citizens in Estonia are given an ID card that includes a public/private key pair allowing users to cryptographically sign digital documents
e0Q7k TIL that oil magnate J. Paul Getty, one of the richest humans in history, was so miserly that he laundered his own shirts by hand, reused envelopes and paper, made all the phones in his home coin-operated, and stood in line for hours for show tickets to save 50 cents
69MXZ TIL that the IAU (International Astronomical Union) only recognizes 88 official constellations. Any pattern of stars that is not one of the 88 official constellations is called an asterism, with the most well-known ones being the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, Orion's Belt, and the Summer Triangle.
pYRBA TIL: During the One World Trade Center construction, workers had the choice of bringing lunches or facing the nearly impossible task of descending to ground in 30 minutes for food. To solve this, a Subway franchise created a full shop in a shipping container, which was lifted to the workers daily.