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TIL Futurama is named after an exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair that showed what they thought the world would be like in 1959

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69yJ7 TIL in January 1991 20 year old downhill skier Gernot Reinstadler passed away after freak accident involving his skis and safety netting. In front of a large crowd he was essentially torn in two at the pelvis, leaving a train of blood and entrails behind in the snow.
X15X TIL that Amazon removed text-to-speech features for the vision impaired from later Kindle models, for fear that it would cut into profits from audiobooks
v1DDj TIL about the Cassandra, a Greek mythology character, who could accurately predict the future but was cursed so that no one would believe her.
xV9o1 TIL that the Vatican has multilingual ATMs with instructions in Latin. It’s the only ATM in the world with this feature.
p8gdO TIL the smallest state forest in New York measures 348 square feet and contains the stump of only a single tree that was cut down in 2015.