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TIL that the default profile picture of Outlook 2010 was a silhouette of Bill Gates's mugshot.

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lxMN TIL when you have those “how’d I get here” moments when driving, it’s the basal ganglia that has taken control. A very primal part of the brain that controls voluntary but barely conscious actions.
16WPr TIL By 1960 rail transport was so dominant in the USSR was hauling about half of all railway freight in the world (in tonne-km) and they did this on a rail system consisting of 10% of the world's railway length.
yAgv TIL parts of France were so devastated in WWI they were declared permanently uninhabitable: zone rouge.
7r1Ep TIL there is a timezone running at UTC+08:45 that is observed by just 200 people in the south of Australia
6EM8Y Today I learned there was a West Virginia Woman, Sarah Brandon, who gave birth to 16 sons that were in the Civil War, 14 for the Union and 2 for the Confederacy.