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TIL The JSON Software License is non-free because it has a clause mandating: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”

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wolAM TIL that Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him
9GWQ TIL the United States Environmental Protection Agency has a ‘Most Wanted’ list. Each person on the list is wanted by the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division. Included is a CEO of a mining company wanted for dumping arsenic and lead on public lands, currently believed to be hiding in Vancouver.
e05mD TIL Only 29% of Americans realize that state funding for higher education fell by $9 Billion over the past decade
4k8la TIL: The first highly successful disposable product was the bottle cap in 1892, also known as a crown cork.
dDW98 TIL that there is restaurant in Beijing that specialises in preparing dishes from the genitals (penises and testicles) of male animals.