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Today I learned the power symbol we see on computers (a circle with a line on the top) is a combination of the number zero and one, replicating the binary state a computer can be in: on or off.

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aKKA TIL in 2004 a customer in Las Vegas walked into an In-N-Out and ordered a 100x100. That’s 100 beef patties and 100 slices of cheese, which the restaurant obliged as until then they accommodated orders of any size at extra cost. Since then In-N-Out changed it’s rules and capped the burger at 4x4.
xVWbD TIL in the 1970s "Wimpy Bars" (one of the era’s largest fast food restaurant chains in the UK) used to refuse entry to women on their own after midnight. This may have been on the assumption that they were prostitutes.
Ye8x TIL Ellie Kemper (Erin from The Office) came from a family of millionaire bankers and philanthropists. She went to Princeton and Oxford before pursuing comedy from the ground up.
jN8mE TIL That the Moon could have been formed by a natural nuclear explosion.
x9Z7 TIL that Arthur Shawcross, a man who raped and killed 2 children, was sentenced to 25 years in prison but was paroled early because it was concluded that he was “no longer dangerous”. Eleven months after being released he started killing again, murdering 12 women before being captured.