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TIL that the the ‘zero’ was invented by an Indian mathematician Aryabhata

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nWDEo TIL that Jack Karlson, "Democracy Manifest guy" escaped police custody multiple times throughout his life, including; jumping off a train, convincing a fisherman to give him a ride off an island and pretending to be a detective before his trial and just walking out
ADPkx TIL that in 2038, we will have another Y2K-style software issue with dates, as 32 bit software can't represent time past Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond that will be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as Friday, 13 December 1901
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