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TIL: In 2004, a study was published showing that retiring to a cruise ship was often as cost effective as retiring to a retirement home and was more effective in providing quality of life

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WkeLB TIL Seven’s a lucky number if you need to restart the whole internet. Only seven people from the ICANN can restore it in case of a catastrophe. The DNSSEC root key holders would be summoned to a base in the United States to oversee a reboot of the system, using their keys to enable it.
d819K TIL Full House star, Jodie Sweetin, was born in jail (starts at 2:30)
6EMvZ TIL The Simpsons writer/producer Mike Reiss insists The Itchy & Scratchy Show is based on Herman and Katnip, which he calls a "cheap, ultra-violent knockoff" of Tom and Jerry. Director David Silverman supports this, stating Herman and Katnip "is hilarious because it's just bad."
boDj TIL That Jews put god on trial during the holocaust, and found him guilty
jwXX TIL The person who invented the automated telephone exchange, an undertaker, came up with the idea when he started losing customers to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was intercepting and redirecting everyone’s calls