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TIL women can use PMS as a defense in the court

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6Y9w TIL that Sony BMG used music cds to illegally install rootkits on users computers to prevent them from ripping copyrighted music; the rootkits themselves, in a copyright violation, included open-source software.
NXBwQ TIL that 'Swimming Reindeer' is the name given to a highly detailed 13,000 year-old ivory sculpture. Carved in the late Ice Age, it depicts two migrating reindeer (m & f) and shows a sophisticated understanding of their anatomy & behaviour. Antlers, fur, genitalia, udders & markings are all shown.
1ajOV TIL that the 1912 presidential election, the Socialist candidate -Eugene V.Debs- received six percent of the popular vote which was the highest ever for a Socialist or Communist or any leftist in U.S. history.
e9VE TIL that Bruce Willis was once a private investigator.
BAKL TIL that Walt Disney loved trains since he was a teenager and occasionally donned an engineer’s outfit and drove the Disneyland railroad’s locomotives when they were pulling trains with passengers on board.