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TIL How digital payments work, and god its complex.
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GADeG
TIL there is a town in Alaska called Whittier where nearly the entire population lives in one building along with all of the town's public facilities.
eEML
TIL if your cell phone reaches a speed of 1,200mph and an altitude of over 60,000ft, the built-in GPS will disable itself. This is due to a Government regulation that prevents the GPS feature in the device being used in a guided missile.
mBPy
TIL the HTTP standard includes an error message 418: I’m a teapot. It is part of the standard detailing a protocol known as Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) and is supposed to be used when an attempt is made to brew coffee in a teapot instead of a coffee pot.
gD64
TIL of General Butt Naked who led his troops naked into war, plucked innocent children’s hearts out to eat, chopped the heads of hundreds of people to use as soccer balls and ritually sacrificed teenagers. After the war,he claimed to have found religion and repented. He is now a preacher in Liberia.
QJ7DE
TIL Noise Cancelling and Noise Isolating don’t mean thing. Noise isolating headphones only reduce the volume of the incoming ambient sound whereas noise canceling headphones actively send back an inverted signal to completely block out ambient sound.