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TIL that ‘spontaneous human combustion’ has been recorded to have happened several times in history.

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xV8Ew TIL about Kim Bok-Dong and what a "comfort woman" was. During WWII, at 14 years old, Kim Bok-Dong was taken to Japan where she joined other young women who were forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers. The Japanese government later made them work as nurses to try to hide what had happened
M7R0 TIL the word “nothing” was Elizabethan slang for vagina and that the play “Much Ado About Nothing” was a shameless, dirty pun
Wk6WY TIL a small town in east Texas with only 24,000 people saw 25% of all patent law suits in America. Patent trolls used to try all their cases there before the supreme court disallowed it.
gM5gL Today I learned about Geek Code, a compact language of numbers and symbols used by self-described "Geeks" to inform other geeks about all aspects of their personality, appearance, interests, skills, and opinions.
gMA0L TIL that Princess Leia's hair in Star Wars was inspired by women of the Mexican revolution.