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TIL in 1991, the little plastic ball in cans of Guinness won the Queens Award for Technological Advancement, beating the Internet and Email.

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bLB9 TIL Yellow speed limit signs in the U.S. are recommended speeds but are not enforced.
4XY6w TIL - In 1836 a lowly sewer worker asked the governors at the Bank of England to meet him in the vault because he had identified a breach of security. Incredulously they complied, only to see the man pop up to join them through a hole in the floor by moving a few floorboards.
M7Nr7 TIL that Pacific Islanders were forced to come to Australia to be slaves on sugar plantations in a practice known as "blackbirding"
wP6E TIL there exists an upside down stoplight in Syracuse, NY because in 1925, a group of local Irish youths refused to let the red light (Britain) to be above the green light (Ireland).
J1vv1 TIL Anne Rice was named after her father