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TIL Pete Townshend Was Arrested on Child Porn Charges

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WkNVA TIL of John Brown, an abolitionist who was the first person convicted and hanged for treason in the United States after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.
e0G4 TIL - in 2009 Bill Gates purchased the rights to the Feynman Lectures so that he could annotate them and make them freely available.
VBmw4 TIL Steve Jobs hated Android OS so much he would spend billions to destroy it since he believed it is "stolen product"
ADQ8w TIL "Adam" is just the Hebrew word for "man"
yQlml TIL Thomas Jefferson had a copy of a 1734 edition Qu'ran in his private library. Historians believe he bought the book while studying law to better understand Islam’s influence on some of the world’s legal systems.