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TIL Harvard once Expelled Ten Students for Being Gay in a Secret Kangaroo Court until Being Revealed in 2002

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4kdZ5 TIL Steve Jobs was such a big fan of Sony, he wanted a partnership to run OSX on VAIO computers
E1lod TIL the Appalachian Trail became international in the 1990's and has since been extended with sections from the US through Canada, and into Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Britain, Ireland, Iberia, and into Africa
wonQ6 TIL that Chevron uses the "Standard" name for one gas station in each state it serves, so it doesn't lose the Standard Oil trademark
dbg7 TIL of Nobuo Fujita, the only person to ever drop a bomb on the contiguous U.S. He was later invited back to the town he unsuccessfully bombed but carried his family’s 400 y/o sword to commit seppuku if he received a hostile reception. He was greeted warmly, and donated the sword to the town instead
ggpL TIL that a Seattle man trained to fight a wild 80 pound octopus, underwater, in it’s natural habitat, without any weapon or SCUBA gear. He won the fight and then ate the octopus.