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d8Nr TIL that in Germany there are fake bus stops outside many nursing homes to prevent confused senior citizens from wandering off
7rGkp TIL that Matt Patricia is the only rocket scientist coaching in the NFL. Before coaching, he was a working aeronautical engineer who graduated from RPI: a school whose fight song includes "sin", "cosine" and "tangent", as well as six digits of pi.
KvAQ TIL Pope Francis used to be a nightclub bouncer
e0mJn TIL that the Romanian Parliament building is the heaviest building in the world. Despite containing two parliamentary chambers, three museums and an international conference centre, it is still 70% empty.
4X8N TIL a man submitted a patent in 1979 that almost perfectly resembles an iPod. He even went as far as predicting a need for DRM and a way to distribute the music.