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TIL Caroline Dhavernas (from Hannibal and Wonderfalls) is the voice of Montreal REM metro train network. Her mother, Michèle Deslauriers, was the previous voice.

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e0K0n TIL about the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, a federal law designed to block new inventions and technologies, restricting their publication if government agencies believe that disclosure would be “detrimental to the national security.” There were over 5000 inventions on the list as of 2010.
ADg7x Four-fifths of the UAE’s population are classed as ‘foreigners’.
4XlJg TIL engineers have been able to increase the damage resistance of an airplane's black box by 60 times thanks to studying the anatomy of a woodpecker's skull.
6ZA8 TIL: If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
LRmQ TIL a star discovered 75 light-years away is no warmer than a freshly brewed cup of coffee.