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Today I learned that there is a Microsoft Excel World Championship where people compete based on their Excel formula skills and it’s (like?) an eSport

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d8Qwr TIL that Bhutan only permitted television and the Internet in 1999, with the King saying that television was a critical step to the modernization of Bhutan, but warning that the "misuse" of this new technology could erode traditional Bhutanese values
0QdM TIL Nazi German authorities kidnapped and indoctrinated hundreds of thousands of European children who they considered to have Germanic appereance. Nazi authorities used their Germanic physical appearence to prove the Germanic roots of the children.
BrpEe TIL that a German man drove the same car, nicknamed Otto, 549,000 miles in 177 countries on a 26-year road trip. His wife joined him for most of the journey, where they traveled to nearly every country on the planet.
5Y6B TIL that stoplights are yellow 1 second for every 10 MPH of the posted speed limit.
kOb91 TIL Hard Drives are Drive "C:/" because originally PCs only had up to 2 floppy disk drives labelled A and B, some time later hard disks got added and became drive C.