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TIL Romania’s illicit handmade CoBra computer of the 1980s. The authorities could seize the students’ electronics, make them pay fines, and could expel them from the university for starters.

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TIL spam (as refering to online unwanted communication) came from a Monty Python sketch.

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TIL about "Turkey teeth"

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TIL pyranine, the fluorescent used in yellow highlighters, has also been used in hair dyes

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Source is the file EUCOSMETICS_Decision_96-335-EC_all.csv under the name ‘Trisodium 8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulphonate (CI 59040)’. Followed the link provided by PubChem to the NORMAN Suspect List Exchange. I mean it makes sense.

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TIL Vim uses hjkl keys for cursor movement because they doubled as arrows keys on Bill Joy's original keyboard.

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And the home directory is aliased to ~ in UNIX-like systems because the tilde key doubled as the Home key.

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TIL that in 2011, pro-democracy protests emerged in major cities in China, and they are considered the first major pro-democracy protests since the controversial 1989 Tiananmen Square protests."

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TIL in 1982 William Shatner paid $10,000-15,000 to an ex-Green Beret named Bo Gritz leading a mercenary force on a raid into Laos

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Shatner said he was buying “the rights to Gritz’s life story”. But by paying before the “POW rescue” raid happened, while Gritz was actively & openly fund-raising for the raid, was he basically helping to fund the raid?

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TIL that China have all-boys classes within co-ed schools, often established to address the academic and behavioral "lagging" of boys compared to girls

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TIL that automatic registration for the military draft will begin in December

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TIL: 5 minute crafts is an enormous scam

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TIL that Sam Altman and Sam Bankman-Fried are two different people!

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TIL, American who live in Mississippi, Wyoming, Arkansas, and Alabama spend the highest portion of their income on gasoline. Californians, despite high taxes, are closer to the national average.

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TIL that Over the course of the seven-month Blitz (Sept 1940 – May 1941) in WW2 , nearly 30,000 Londoners were killed, averaging around 4,200 deaths per month.

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TIL that British india(British Raj) have a significant role in British-Qing opium trade as Indian farmers produced opium poppy in large numbers

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TIL Antarctica has its own accent.

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In Israel, a rabbinical judge can force couples into divorce if the wife dresses indecently

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Since donning the burka, the woman said she had been taunted by neighbours who called her a “smelly Arab” and that Israeli soldiers had asked to see her identification papers to prove she was not a Muslim. They backed down, she said, when she showed them that her children were clearly Jewish.

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Physicists used a ferret to clean particle accelerator tubes.

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TIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.

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TIL that Heilongjiang,China has currently the lowest TFR of any large administrative subdivision in the world with 0.52 children per woman

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TIL that In many reptile species, females are larger than male species, which contrasts with the general mammalian trend where males are larger,This difference is primarily due to fecundity selection

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