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TIL A Russian family survived 40 years in the Siberian wilderness cut off from all human contact, unaware of WWII

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X06KP TIL learned that the German Railways (DB) is still working with Windows 3.11 (German source). Now they are looking for a system admin with Win 3.11 and MS-DOS experience but apparently there are struggling to find any candidates. No shit Sherlock :)
R5ar4 TIL 18% of adults with asthma smoke, compared to 13.6% of adults without asthma
grMk8 TIL That identical twin sisters in Italy once ran a scam where they both worked in different courtrooms at the same time, allowing them to double book. It lasted for three years before they were caught.
RGQ8 TIL shortly before she died, Majel Barrett recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds, allowing her voice to be used in future products outside of Star Trek and, quite possibly, as the computer voice in Star Trek: Discovery. Thus, she could live on as the voice of Starfleet possibly for all time.
wKnP TIL A town exists in Florida with a name so offensive, it had to be taken off of maps and public records