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TIL The entire nation of Qatar has the same IP address

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MvO0 TIL of Belphegor’s prime. A 31-digit, palindromic prime number named after the prince of Hell responsible for ingenious inventions: 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001.
vAEL TIL that in keeping with Ireland’s neutrality policy in WW2, the Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) expressed his condolences to the German ambassador when Hitler committed suicide
5Ebp TIL The synthesizer that Ferris Bueller uses to simulate his realistic-sounding coughs is an E-MU Emulator II, which at the time went for around $8,000. That’s equivalent to over $17,000 in today’s dollars.
6E7JW TIL that many Confederate soldiers immigrated to Brazil after the American Civil War, establishing a community of "Confederados" that still exists today, five generations later.
wonD7 TIL a 20-yr-old man died 10 hrs after eating unrefrigerated, 5-day-old spaghetti with tomato sauce that he had reheated at school. His autopsy highlighted the importance of refrigerating food: the warmer temp allowed bacteria in the pasta to grow & produce a toxin that contributed to his death.