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TIL Domino's Pizza added human engine sound to silent electric scooter in the Netherlands

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vPwV7 TIL at her 80th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II quoted Groucho Marx: "Anyone can get old - all you have to do is to live long enough".
x6O55 TIL that in 1950, the Italian town of Colobraro declared itself “the town of the living dead” after a local curse and started wearing white sheets at night to protect themselves from misfortune.
WoE8 TIL: Scientists May Have Evidence We Are In A Matrix-Like Simulation.
d8meE TIL in 2012, a civilian working on the submarine USS Miami wanted to get off work early so he started a fire that soon spread out of control and ultimately resulted in the boat being decommissioned. He was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution.
X0MAE TIL of Somaliland, an entirely unrecognized sovereign nation in the de jure territory of Somalia. Since declaring independence in 1991, it has managed to carve out a free, democratic and relatively peaceful and prosperous country in a notoriously war-torn region.