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TIL in 2012, State Prisoners tasked with producing the State Seal decals for State Trooper cruisers, modified one of the spots on a cow in the state seal to look like a PIG

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kOoge TIL That Sim Cards Actually Are Mini Computers With Their Own CPU, ROM, RAM, and EEPROM
dDKxE Til: Montana (380,800 sq km) is larger than Germany (357,500 sq km) population 1 million vs 83 million
R7Kd7 TIL building contractors and architectural engineers in Alaska have an adage when it comes to building in the Arctic or near-Arctic regions: "If it’s frozen, keep it frozen; if it’s thawed, keep it thawed".
PYrDL TIL that Github have an archive program, where they physically store almost all influential open-source projects in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a project similar to the Svalbard Seed Vault. The intention is to aid future historians and technologists for at least a 1000 years.
4XrVX TIL Most of our 60 trillion dollar stock and bond markets are non-physical AND unsecured.