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TIL In 2005 canadians campaigned to ban comic sans

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7lrX TIL Many of the techniques pioneered by slave owners in the 1800s are widely used in business management today.
grKpX TIL that the Neobuthus factorio, a species of scorpion from the Buthidae family, was named by one of its researchers after the video game Factorio, which was created by the researcher's son.
W7NlY TIL In 1969 Whitney Lee Savage, Adam Savage's father, made a short film in which Mickey Mouse goes to fight in the Vietnam war and is killed instantly upon arrival.
lXVa TIL an artificially intelligent computer was programmed to reflect some of the issues present in schizophrenia, and it proceeded to claim to be a terrorist.
e0onD TIL The Offspring made an April Fool's joke by saying that their 7th album would be called "Chinese Democrazy" since Guns n' Roses was taking so long to release their album. Axl Rose actually fell for it and filed a Cease and Desist against them.