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TIL: Nearly every copier built since 2002 contains a drive storing an copy of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.

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awQ99 TIL that a Scottish lady, Joy Milne, is able to detect Parkinsons' prior to formal diagnosis and has helped scientists understand the development of the disease
PYgMV TIL there is a pig out there with a coat like a sheep that almost went extinct by the 1990s called the Mangalica pig.
woJWW TIL the Empire State Building was referred to as the Empty State Building during the Great Depression. One original tenant, a jeweler, had a place there from 1931 to 2008
PxrL TIL: Pop-up casinos exist in Nevada. They show up and operate for one 8-hour shift at defunct casinos in order to preserve the gaming license.
YpBKW TIL the abbreviation “lb” for pound comes from the ancient Roman unit of measure “libra pondo”, meaning “a pound by weight”, which is also why we ended up calling it a “pound”.