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TIL of Umarell, an Italian subculture of older men who spend their time watching roadworks and construction sites.

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xoPo TIL Carbon Monoxide is used in the USA to make meat appear fresher. This practise is banned in Canada, Japan, Singapore, and the European Union.
ADPkx TIL that in 2038, we will have another Y2K-style software issue with dates, as 32 bit software can't represent time past Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond that will be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as Friday, 13 December 1901
WAWd TIL that Miami Police Department uses fixed microphones throughout the city and a special software to automatically pick up any gun shots and triangulate their origin to a couple of meters accuracy. Allowing them to immediately dispatch Officers there.
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