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Today I learned the city of Stockholm used the game Cities: Skylines to help design a new district and simulate housing and transportation

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gBxA TIL the “Law & Order” sound is “technically a piece of music”, so composer Mike Post gets a royalty every time it is played. Post calls the sound “ching ching” because he’s “making money off of it.”
XNM8 TIL the Royal Canadian Mint created a giant, million-dollar coin from nearly pure gold. It was stolen from a museum in Berlin in March, when the market price of the gold was nearly 4 times the coin’s face value.
Rob9 TIL in 1997, the USS Yorktown’s entire propulsion system failed after attempting to divide by zero
RR0w TIL that there is a sparkling blue African berry which can retain it’s color for 40+ years after being picked.
0wb81 TIL that "Covalent Organic Frameworks" or COFs based materials loaded with phosphoric acid has the potential to exhibit maximum current density for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Applications