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TIL the US is finally getting rid of the obsolete swipe-and-sign credit card payment method (starting in October of this year with a ‘liability shift’)

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wL191 TIL of WW2 US Army Captain Moffatt Burriss who, along with two other me in a Jeep, accidentally stumbled upon a 15,000 strong German Panzer Corps outside of Berlin toward the end of the war. He approached the enemy commander alone and tricked him into surrendering his army and being taken captive.
D1ndj TIL Barbra Streisand had her dead dog Sammie cloned twice and both dogs now have different personalities than the original.
VMZbk TIL the perfect Japanese pangram (a sentence using every letter of an alphabet once) is not a nonsensical phrase like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - It's actually a poem called the Iroha, which is considered so perfect it has provided the ordering of Japanese syllabary since 1079.
MeXxm TIL The average U.S. gamer is 35 years old
KO6jE TIL that Australia was once home to a flightless bird known as the Demon-Duck of Doom