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TIL on a good note: Guitars per capita rising 55x, we have more leisure

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R5xDQ TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the EULA before he installed some PC software. The agreement included a clause offering 'financial compensation' to licensees who actually read the license agreement. He emailed the company, referred to the clause and the company sent him a check for $1,000
kOyPE TIL about the melon drop scam, a con that targeted Japanese tourists. Scammers would buy a watermelon for a low price and then bump into an Asian tourist and charge them about $100 for the broken melon. This is due to the higher fruit prices in Japan. These days the scam involves any broken item.
XwaR TIL that the invention of the bicycle was a factor in reducing rural inbreeding because it tripled the courting radius for rural workers.
D1xjP TIL that Nestle Smarties are all the same flavour except the orange one, which is flavoured with orange oil.
vDMr TIL that the U.S. military originally planned to provide personnel, vehicles, and costumes for the film ‘Independence Day’, but backed out after producers refused to remove the script’s Area 51 references.