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TIL about The Vault, the FBI's online library of documents related to frequently FOIA'ed investigations conducted on a wide range of individuals and organizations.

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DWWp TIL McLaren Automotive still uses a Compaq LTE 5280, a laptop from 1992, to provide service and maintenance to all remaining 100 McLaren F1s in the world.
YWJv TIL that as a child, the French designer Christian Louboutin, being darker-skinned than the rest of his family, invented his own history of being Egyptian, due to his fascination with Pharaohs. At the age of 50, Louboutin discovered that his biological father was in fact an Egyptian man.
ooa7 TIL:University of Illinois hosts a phone number you can call 24/7 for a few weeks in December and a live person will sing you Christmas carols. They have been doing this for 55 years.
N7E0M TIL that during a power blackout in Los Angeles in 1994, people saw the Milky Way and called 911 to report a "strange giant, silvery cloud".
5RZR TIL The coastline of Japan is one of the longest in the world, outranking that of Australia and the US. (Japan - 18,486 mi., Australia - 16,006 mi., US - 12,380 mi.)