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TIL Parts of New York City have a vacuum-driven garbage-collection system that literally sucks trash through pipes under the streets to a central disposal location–and has had it for 35 years.

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1a9Rr TIL in 1987, an engineer used a new computer program “rwall” to send a message to his university server. Instead, the program broadcasted the message to every user on the internet—including the Pentagon.
epZGL TIL that electrical devices have something called a „Sabbath mode“ which exists to restrict functions of said devices to be used, as energy/fire usage to cook is prohibited during the sabbath
eev5 TIL Russia passed a Bill in 2008 that banned Emo.
R55lQ TIL Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, in a clinical study sanctioned by Disney, had a 70% success rate in helping pass kidney stones for simulated kidneys.
69yL8 TIL the official name for Mexico is the "United Mexican States".