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TIL citizens in Estonia are given an ID card that includes a public/private key pair allowing users to cryptographically sign digital documents.

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5YZ8D Til about the Indian Buddhist monk who went halfway across the world to meet the Roman emperor and then travelled to Athens Greece in 19BC to burn himself alive
WMV8 TIL that when oxygen first developed on Earth, it wiped out nearly ~99% of all life.
RXd9 TIL Cuba has an illegal underground network of computers mimicking the internet essentially making it the worlds largest LAN party
E1gZp TIL that Keurig believes that Canadian K-Cups will be recyclable by 2018 and all K-Cups will be 100% recyclable by the year 2020
Bgb6k TIL Magdalen College in Oxford is pronounced 'maudlin' because that's how Mary Magdalene was said in the 1400s, and the art style depicting Mary as sad and sorrowful is the roof of the word 'maudlin'