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TIL There is an esoteric programming language called LOLCODE, in which code is expressed in the style of lolcat speech, implementing lines of code like “HAI,” “CAN HAS [LIBRARY]?” and “KTHXBAI.”

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p8Mlb TIL musician Gram Parsons wanted his body cremated and scattered at Joshua Tree, but his family arranged for him to be buried in Louisiana for financial reasons. His friends, drunk and assisted by an unwitting police officer, stole his body from the airport and burned the casket themselves.
WWdL TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.
DQApV TIL Dark Horse Comics had to cancel several titles in the 1990’s including their CGW title as the comic industry was glutted & imploded in the 1990’s. However, they were saved by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ghost in the Shell, Frank Miller’s Sin City & 300 !
Rlx9 TIL you cannot enter Canada from the USA with a DUI on your record.
PYVJn TIL that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev is a Grammy Award winner