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There is a three-digit-code on every egg carton that indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365

The 2038 Problem, a computer science problem theorized to be worse than Y2K. 2038 day will occur on January 19th at 3:14:07 UTC, when the number of seconds since the clock started (January 1st 1971), passes the maximum integer in 32 bits (2^31).

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1. National holidays in Mexico include Independence Day (September 16), Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Las Posadas (December 16 to December 24), Noche Buena (December 24), Navidad (December 25), Año Nuevo (December 31 to January 1), Twelfth Night of Christmas (January 5), and the Day of the Dead (November 2).

2. The Nazi government admitted defeat on public radio on January 31, 1943.

3. The battle was fought from December 31, 1862 until January 2, 1863.

4. Today, January 31, 2018, is Tu BiShvat, the Jewish holiday for calculating tree age (for historical tithing), and is now an ecological awareness day

5. Facebook's error of friendships existing since Dec. 31, 1969 is a common technology glitch where Unix resets to its epoch date of January 1, 1970, and USA is still in December 31 compared to Greenwich time

6. To determine freshness of eggs, a Julian date or pack-date calendar is printed on the carton. This three-digit code indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365.

7. You are not allowed to donate blood to other countried if you lived in the UK for over 6 months between 1 January 1980 and 31 December 1996.

8. In the lead-up to Super Bowl XLVIII, the Washington State Senate passed a resolution on Friday, January 31, 2014, temporarily renaming Mount Rainier as Mount Seattle Seahawks.

9. On January 31, 2003, 150 acres of Governor's Island was transferred to the State and City of New York for $1.

10. Jem Finer of The Pogues composed "Longplayer" - a piece of music that is designed to last for one thousand years. It started to play on 1 January 2000, and if all goes as planned, it will continue without repetition until 31 December 2999. It will restart on that date.

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A Super Bowl XXII poster was seen in The Poltergeist (1982). Actress Heather O'Rourke from the film died at the age of twelve on January 31, 1988, the same day (and in the same city) as Super Bowl XXII.

The United States successfully launched its first satellite into space on January 31, 1958, 60 ago today - source

The The second millennium was a period of time that began on January 1, 1001 of the Julian calendar and ended on December 31, 2000 of the Gregorian calendar. It did not end on December 31, 1999. - source

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The United States of America Succesfully Launched its First Satellite, Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958 - source

In 1988, actress Heather O'Rourke died at age 12. In a 1982 movie scene, she is filmed with a Superbowl 1988 poster which had not occurred at the time of filming. Heather went into cardiac arrest on January 31, 1988 in San Diego, the same day and the same city which the Superbowl occurred.

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