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TIL: O’Reilly books have artwork of creatures on the covers because their original graphic artist thought that Unix program names sounded like “weird animals”

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BrKyb TIL of Joy Milne who claimed that she smelled a distinct odor in patients with Parkinson's disease like her husband. She sniffed 6 shirts from people with Parkinson’s and 6 from healthy controls and identified 7 had it. 8 months later the "healthy" patient she "misidentified" was diagnosed as well.
aw7oy TIL Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 was recalled because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players discovered they could watch the episode by simply putting the game disc into a PC.
lmyN TIL In Dante’s Inferno, Dante puts people he considered his enemies in the various circles of hell, even though many of them were still alive when the epic poem was published.
XEJQP TIL In the late 17th century, the pirate Henry Avery became the richest pirate in the world after raiding a treasure laden ship belonging to the Grand Ruler of India. He stole £600,000 in precious metals and jewels, equivalent to £89.6M today. The world’s first worldwide manhunt was called on him.
Dxej TIL you should use the stall closest to the door in public restrooms. Most people skip it and it ends up being used less and generally has less germs.