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TIL The Guinness Book of World Records Holds the Record for Being the Book Most Often Stolen from Public Libraries

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D17dD TIL that there was a form of medieval torture, where the victim's feet were covered in salt water and then a goat would start licking them. Sometimes the laughter and stress from the intense tickling resulted in a heart attack or a brain hemorrhage.
XE4RQ TIL of Arfa Karim, who at the age of nine became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional. After an epileptic seizure resulted in cardiac arrest, Bill Gates directed his doctors to adopt "every kind of measure" for her treatment.
dDAEB TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS
X05Xk TIL During the end of WW2, a German army soldier deserted, impersonated a Luftwaffe captain, and orchestrated the execution of 200 German army deserters held at prison camp
wEAJ TIL in 2004 makers of “Action Man”, Hasbro asked children to vote on whether the main villain should be allowed to live. They killed him