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TIL Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995; video game DOOM was first.

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neJAG TIL that in Germany, and some other countries, there's no punishment for escaping prison. Their law consider it's a basic human instinct to want to escape, so no extra time is added to the initial sentence if no other laws are broken in order to escape.
ZZKa TIL Caltech students, as a part of a long running pranking war, infiltrated an MIT fair and handed out 400 T-shirts that read “MIT” on the front and “because not everybody can go to Caltech” on the back.
nrlr TIL that if you put grapes into the microwave it creates plasma.
ydpJ TIL 24 yr old woman was sentenced to 20 months in jail for sending abusive Facebook messages to herself from fake profiles she made for her father and his wife
Wk0WX TIL In 1955 Playboy published a story about straight men being persecuted in a world where homosexuality was the norm. After many angry letters, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, "If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too."