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TIL Jonathan Goldsmith “The Most Interesting Man in the World” played a crewmember on the original Star Trek.

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4xWN TIL there is a 100-year-old organization dedicated to bringing the metric system to the US and tomorrow starts “Metric Week”
BkVL TIL of Y2k38, or the Year 2038 Problem, when a signed 32-bit integer will no longer be large enough to store the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch.
NXZle TIL HBO cancelled Game of Thrones spin-off Bloodmoon in 2019 after spending $30 million on its pilot. HBO's content chief explained that it was a hard project because George RR Martin had only written about 8 lines of text for the era the show was set in, so a lot more invention was required.
wLrjP TIL the first drive thru restaurant in 1948 lured motorists with a promise of “NO DELAY”, In-N-Out.
GY8A7 TIL about The Lainz Angels of Death. Four nurses aides from Lainz, Vienna who confessed to murdering 49 patients over 6 years (could have been as many as 200). All were convicted in 1991 and have been subsequently released.