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TIL an organization called Safe Parking LA "provides confidential, daily-monitored parking places for those who are living in their vehicles with current proof of a valid driver's license, vehicle registration, and insurance."

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0wpxy TIL Scott Fahlman is credited with originating the first ever smiley emoticon, which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on.
gMloy TIL When Hitler adopted the undercut hairstyle, his legion of blonde (undercut) haired, blue-eyed Aryans quickly followed suit, apparently requesting the style because it eased the wearing and removing of their helmets. The style resurfaced in the 1980s and again in the 2010s
D1APr TIL about Apophis (Egyptian god of death and darkness), an asteroid that will pass earth closer than our own satellites orbit on Friday 13th, 2029. It will touch our atmosphere, and we will be able to see it wiz overhead. There is a debated chance of it impacting Earth when it returns in 2036.
b8wj TIL that King Vladimir I of Kiev converted the Rus to Christianity instead of Islam because of the prohibition on alcohol, saying “Drinking is the joy of all Rus.”“
060A TIL - After the end of WW II, the Allies sold captured Enigma machines, still widely considered secure, to developing countries. These countries did not know that the machine had been broken, their supposedly secure communications were being read regularly by the major Western intelligence agencies