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TIL first published in 1993, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world.

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Mkr8 TIL that in 2010, Taco Bell secretly reduced the sodium content of its food at 150 Dallas area restaurants by 23%. Without telling anyone, they replaced the salt with “other spices and other ingredients.” Two months later, they had received exactly zero complaints about the changes.
e0XVD TIL George Washington's salary as a US President was 2% of the total US budget at that time.
ep674 TIL the Technicolor company had a custom train-car built in the 1910s to process color film on location
Z8gMB TIL that the FBI's $1B facial recognition system couldn't match photos of the Boston marathon bombers to their drivers licenses. The system was only good for matching drivers license and passport photos to other drivers license and passport photos
dDvvB TIL the on-hold track loop most people are familiar with is used by Cisco Systems, and was created by a 16 year old IT nerd named Tim Carleton.