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TIL Gabe Newell is so confident in Valve’s Steam Guard he has announced his Steam username and password and challenged people to get in

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rNGQ0 TIL indigenous Americans made pictorial calendars called “Winter counts” that recorded events or information important to their tribe.
rk5o TIL there was a made-for-TV Gilligan’s Island movie featuring the Harlem Globetrotters playing a team of robots
XEr6k TIL George Washington died when his doctors tried to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat) with blood letting. He lost more than half his blood before they stopped the treatment, and died just hours later.
4j15 TIL of Whipping Tom, the name given to two serial spankers in London in the 17th & 18th centuries. “On seeing an unaccompanied woman, he would grab her, lift her dress, and slap her buttocks repeatedly before fleeing. He would sometimes accompany his attacks by shouting "Spanko!”“
M7R07 TIL - The US Army once gave a very passionate disadulation to cyclists who tried to make leisure bicycling in the Arlington National Cemetery legal. Partially due to cyclists refused to yield to funeral precessions.