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TIL AT&T only put the * and # buttons on the phone keypad because they had extra space, and they figured maybe someone someday will find some use for them.

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xoEw TIL that the danger from accidentally dropping one of the lamps used in an IMAX projector is so great that projectionists must wear body armor while doing so
neWdo TIL that there's a green town in the Netherlands named Giethoorn where people either walk or take river boats as a means of transportation
1aoND TIL that HIV/AIDS used to be called "the 4H disease" by the CDC since it seemed to affect mostly Homosexuals, Haitians, Heroin users, and hemophiliacs. The disease was also called GRID by the media, which stood for gay- related immune deficiency.
vEMK TIL It takes 20 minutes to produce a tin of Pringles, and only 11 seconds to fry each chip
gMpBL TIL that the likelihood of a monkey typing Sharespeare's play Hamlet is so small that if every proton in the observable universe were a monkey randomly typing at 400 words/min, they would likely only get the first 79 letters correct in the first 14 billion years.