User:Korodzik/Hello

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Interesting things I learned from Wikipedia
 * Centralia, Pennsylvania, once with over 1000 residents, is now almost completely abandoned due to a mine fire that started in 1962, is still burning today, and will probably continue until about 2217.
 * In 1987, an old radioactive item has been stolen from an abandoned hospital in Brazil; the unaware scavengers indirectly caused death and injury of several people (see Goiânia accident.)
 * A pilcrow, ¶ - a symbol which many users of word processors are familiar with - has been around since medieval times, and has been used to denote a new line of though, before paragraph breaks became commonplace.
 * The longest-lasting and slowest musical performance yet undertaken is a performance of John Cage's As Slow As Possible, which began in 2001 and is scheduled to be finished in 2640.
 * In the year 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727, the 128-bit Unix time will reset to zero.

''Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. Translated to English.'' Last updated 13 September 2008. Newest entries: Frau Cules, Kamil Kosowski, Coz

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