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TIL There is a road in Lancaster, CA that has grooves carved in it that when you drive over them all, they play The William Tell Overture.

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wj16 TIL that During World War II in the pacific, approaching soldiers in Allied uniforms were ordered to shout lollapalooza back to the ones manning the checkpoint — if they pronounced the L’s as R’s, as Japanese soldiers were likely to do, they could be identified as spies.
4XJYa TIL there is something called Godwin's Law, it states the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
awdEy Today I Learned the ambulance service in most towns used to be ran by the funeral home. So if you needed to be taken to the hospital, you called the funeral home, and they’d use their hearse to transport you to the hospital (until purpose built ambulances became available in the late ‘60s & ‘70s).
wL1m1 TIL Trent Reznor replied on a fan forum to an extremely angry fan who was complaining about why Nine Inch Nails' new music was considered an album not and EP just to tell them to suck his entire cock
nEJd TIL an international group of seven people are keyholders for verifying the authenticity of DNS entries, essentially enabling them to ‘restart’ DNS / the internet in the event of a catastrophe.