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TIL of Pancho Claus, a “Tex-Mex” cousin of Santa Claus, that gives out toys to kids in Hispanic neighborhoods out of his low rider.

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X0a6k TIL The Jane's Addiction song "Jane Says", about Jane who had a heroin addiction and hoped to move to Spain after kicking her habit: Jane actually did exist, she did kick her habit, and she did move to Spain. However, she was not a sex worker as the song intimated.
wL0Y1 TIL Cyber Philosopher Jaron Lanier proposed a 'reverse Moore's Law': As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. The larger a software program gets the more legacy code gums up its efficiency.
04mN TIL mayhem is the crime of intentionally maiming someone. Originally it was specifically removing a body part so that the person could not defend himself in combat.
nxpW TIL When all was said and done the bus monitor (Karen Klein) who was bullied / filmed by those kids in NY received $654,601.89 and retired 1 week later.
rRDEw TIL: of the Merryhill museum of art in middle of nowhere Washington State, originally intended as a country mansion for entrepreneur Sam Hill, In 1917 he was convinced by a friend to turn it into “a museum for the public good, and for the betterment of French art in the far Northwest of America.”