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kOwM5 TIL Marie Curie was involved in a sex scandal when a newspaper published love letters between her and a former student of her deceased husband. Her lover later challenged the newspaper’s editors to a dual to defend Marie’s honor.
9YndX TIL that all the golf holes in Wii sports are 3D versions of NES golf
GYWBE TIL that back in May 2016, in order to show the absurdities of software EULAs, the Norwegian Consumer Council did a live, word-by-word, non-stop reading of all of Apples and 3rd party EULAs on an "average" iPhone. It took them over 32 hours.
jNDAQ TIL of William Cantelo, a British inventor born in 1839 who mysteriously disappeared in the 1880s. His sons developed a theory that he had re-emerged under the name "Hiram Maxim", the inventor of the famous Maxim gun. This was due to a striking resemblance and similar occupation.
58yp TIL the movie Ghost Dad starring Bill Cosby was directed by Sidney Poitier. Critically panned and called one of the worst movies of all time, Sidney Poitier never directed again.