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TIL Apple's policy of refusing to repair phones that have undergone "unauthorized" repairs is illegal in Australia due to their right to repair law.

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v1QJ4 TIL that during the filming of Candyman (1992), director Bernard Rose employed a hypnotist to put lead actress Virginia Madsen into a genuine trance during portions of the film
rR8Gw TIL that Disney secretly bought up 10,000 acres of land around DC to build a new theme park. It ultimately never got built because the American history theme would have been too controversial
XE5Ak TIL hippopotamus can defecate so much in the water they're in, that fish start to die because the bacteria in the hippo's feces use up the majority of the oxygen contained in the river.
wL6YJ TIL of Salt-Rising Bread: a bread which replaces yeast with Clostridium Perfringens, a bacteria that is the 3rd most common cause of food poisoning in the US.
VvLD TIL in 1996, a small town in Utah mistakenly booked Rage Against the Machine at a venue for tractor and monster truck shows. The locals panicked and businesses boarded up thinking the band’s followers would riot and vandalize everything.