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TIL when the city of Munich chose to migrate their administration to Linux 10 years ago, Bill Gates personally paid a visit to ask for their reasons. The mayor replied “Freedom from you, Mr. Gates.”

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b6yWZ TIL: That during the mad cow crisis in the 90s, reactions to the West were overwhelmingly negative in India, where cows hold a special place in the hearts of Hindus. Hindu associations declared that the West had been punished with the appearance of sick humans for its zoophagy, or meat-eating.
jN76Q TIL of the once upper class Black community of Sugar Hill, Jacksonville, Florida. Chosen by city officials to be levelled - to build a multi-lane expressway through it during the 1950s and '60s - the community, once known for its elegance, sits devastated, largely boarded up and overgrown today.
R71Ea TIL the word “dude” originally referred to an extremely well-dressed male from the East Coast and was slang for cowboys who catered to such city-slickers on “dude ranches”, or guest ranches. In the 1960s and 70s it evolved to its current usage starting out with surfer culture.
R5vP9 TIL According to Seneca a gladiator in training once locked himself in the toilet(the only place he was allowed to go unsupervised) and commited suicide by shoving a toilet brush down his throat
D1RKv TIL Australia has 10,685 beaches. If you visited one beach per day, it would take you more than 32 years to see them all.