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TIL: NYC subway's signal technology is nearly a century old, and signal operators don't know precisely where each car is on the tracks at any given time.

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a8Bno TIL Rick Marin from the New York Times called the record label Sub-Pop and asked Megan Jasper for a lexicon of Grunge slang. She kept giving him progressively more ridiculous terms as a joke thinking he would call her out on it, but instead he believed every word of it and published them.
jlpE TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland
j5oQ TIL that abstract paintings by a previously unknown artist “Pierre Brassau” were exhibited at a gallery in Sweden, earning praise for his “powerful brushstrokes” and the “delicacy of a ballet dancer”. None knew that Pierre Brassau was actually a 4 year old chimp from the local zoo.
awmON TIL that Ulithi, an isolated Pacific atoll used by the US Navy as a forward base during WWII, was for seven months the largest and most active anchorage in the world. At its height in the run-up to the invasion of Okinawa, more than 700 ships were anchored in its lagoon.
LkGE0 TIL that about 44% of deaths among Russian soldiers are due to suicide after being a victim of a systematic abuse called Dedovshchina