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TIL of the view that the response to the "Year 2000 problem" was indeed an overreaction, as evidenced by countries such as South Korea and Russia who invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation having the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money

6E688 TIL about an experimental social movement created by high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. It quickly got out of control and he had to stop it. There was even a resistance movement that had formed.
9YjKG TIL the citizens of Monaco are forbidden from entering the gaming rooms of the Monte Carlo Casino. The casino is for foreigners only.
60xZ TIL Newborns recognize their native language. In an experiment on 4 day olds, researchers presented French babies with recordings of a bilingual speaker telling the same story once in French, and once in Russian. The babies,who had “overheard” French in the womb, showed a preference for French
xVRW1 TIL that leftist mural artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a mural in the lobby of Rockefeller Center. His mural included a portrait of Lenin, leading the Rockefellers to cancel the commission and destroy the unfinished mural. Rivera later recreated the piece in Mexico.
4X4VJ TIL in 1994, Indian’s relief pitcher Jason Grimsley once crawled through the Comerica Park air duct with a flashlight in his mouth to get into the umpire’s room so he could switch out Albert Belle’s confiscated bat because he knew it was corked.