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TIL of Hofstadter’s Law which states “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

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PYMvn Scientists have trained a spider named Kim to jump on command.
5PDr TIL a woman became paralyzed after her spine was injected with a powerful antiseptic instead of epidural during childbirth.
dDN79 TIL that the infamous Pac-Man kill screen is caused by an overflow error causing the game to try and draw 256 pieces of fruit. However, the code then starts drawing random garbled pieces of memory, causing half the screen to get covered in random graphics that the game interprets as fruit.
8BDV TIL that a man raped his son’s rapist for revenge.
5YLgQ TIL the song 1985 isn't by Bowling for Soup. It was originally written and preformed by SR-71.