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TIL that MIT students designed an application that will randomly generate a nonsense academic paper; one of these generated papers was actually accepted to the 2005 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

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Zpggo TIL that octopuses have three hearts, and two of them stop beating when they swim.
Gal5 TIL a Dutch television network broadcasted The Big Donorshow, in which a supposedly terminally ill woman chose 1 out of 25 contestants to receive her kidney after she died. The program sparked a major controversy, but led to 50.000 requests for donor forms.
PYAmg TIL that Colonel Sanders was highly critical of KFC, calling it "a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken" and "God-damned slop," while denouncing the gravy as "horrible." At times he'd surprise enter a KFC and throw the food on the floor if in disgust.
e0QlL TIL that on the 3 of September 1967 Swedish traffic switched from the left to the right side of the road. The event is known as "Dagen H" (Swedish for H Day), H standing for Högertrafikomläggningen, or the Right-Hand Traffic Diversion.
16Re4 TIL Sigurd the Mighty, the Second Earl of Orkney who reigned between 875–892, was killed by by an infected wound after he strapped the decapitated head of Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed to his horse. The bouncing head and jaw chewed into Sigurd's leg on his victorious ride home from their fight.