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TIL 32-bit devices won't be able to tell the time accurately by early 2038, 13 year from now.

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4XPdb TIL Lenin's body was embalmed and put on display in his Mausoleum on the Red Square, next to the walls of the Kremlin
VBk14 TIL: Timon & Pumbaa from The Lion King is based on an actual symbiotic relationship between these two species.
YRd TIL that when Thomas Jefferson dubbed the term ‘separation of church and state’ he was echoing the founder of the American Baptist Church, Roger Williams, who also supported it.
E1KQw TIL that in 1910 spectroscopic analysis of volatile gases in the tail of Halley's Comet caused panicked buying of gas masks and quack "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas" by the public.
D1wMe TIL 2018 is the fourth year in a row Costa Rica generated more than 98% of its electricity from renewable sources. Almost no fossil fuels were used.