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TIL that the French have twice attempted to decimalise time, with 10 hour days, 100 minute in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute.

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4XLlX TIL in 1995 Newsweek published an article berating the internet and calling visions about its future "baloney". It predicted that "no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."
b6k7Z TIL that a bug in the game Street Fighter 2 led to the birth of fighting game combos
Eyo0 TIL Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and ‘sounded like a goat’
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