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TIL: The White House runs linux on all of its computers.

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9DGD TIL there is an organization called Think Before You Pink, an organization that warns you of other organizations that are profiting from Breast Cancer Awareness merchandise. Looking at you, NFL!
xVO6D TIL Abraham Lincoln was made an honorary citizen of the Republic of San Marino
egLE TIL there exists a programming language so deliberately difficult to use, that the first program written in it was created two years after the language was released, and it was was written by another program; It is named for the Eighth Circle of Hell.
oRZM8 TIL: Bananas are slightly radioactive and truckloads of them can cause false alarms at radiation portal monitors (the things that detect nuclear material at the ports)
loeEG TIL that it was actually indians who based on historical evidence first invented and used dreadlocks and brought it to the caribbean and introduced it to black people.