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TIL the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has computers that still run on Windows 3.1. They recently posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator with preference given to those who also had MS-DOS experience.

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AZk4 TIL Cashew nuts grow out of a “strange apple”
YM6A TIL Ernst Leitz II risked his own safety by putting into place a wildly successful plan to help Jews escape Nazi Germany. He hired Jews, and then sent them on foreign assignments.
AD4po TIL that according to the FCC, as of 2018, there are still 100,000 pay phones left in the United States.
GMxG TIL commercials in the UK are limited to only 12 minutes per hour, with an average of 7-9 minutes depending upon broadcaster status.
M4AA TIL a charging elephant broke down the door and a wall of a home in India, but immediately stopped when it heard a baby crying. It then removed the debris from the child using its trunk and peacefully returned to the forest.