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TIL of the ‘Year 2038 Problem" which is that because of the way that Unix systems tracks time they cannot go past 19 January 2038 and will instead go backwards to 1901.

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KM56 TIL Acadiens expelled from eastern Canada mostly settled around the state of Louisiana around 1757. Their French pronounciations gradually slackened until ‘Acadien’ came to be pronounced 'A Cajun’.
B75d TIL that Hugin and Munin, Odin’s ravens, appear in The Avengers film, during Thor and Loki’s argument on the mountaintop
QeYL TIL 15 of the 20 fastest shrinking industries in the U.S. are in the manufacturing sector
POee TIL that Marvel Comics’ Deadpool character (Wade Wilson) started as a parody of DC’s Deathstroke (Slade Wilson)
697Qw TIL they gave octopuses MDMA to study their social behavior