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TIL: Computer programmer hired woman to slap him in the face every time he used Facebook, resulting in massive productivity increase.

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aw8eb TIL There is a man selling stocks of his decisionmaking. He calls it "Community Through Capitalism."
nyVB TIL Milhouse is allergic to honey, wheat, dairy, non-dairy, mistletoe, holly, the red part of candy canes, and to his own tears.
N7QKQ TIL That the first novel ever, "The Tale of Genji" was written by a woman
GAWK1 TIL about Maria Spelterini, who in 1876 became the first (and only) woman to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. She crossed several more times with increasingly difficult handicaps: peach baskets strapped to her feet, blindfolded, and with her wrists and ankles shackled together.
WkJBN TIL for several years a company that kept a database of US IP address locations used a point near the geographical center of the US as the default location when the IP address locations were hidden. As a result a farm in Kansas had been targeted by the FBI, IRS, and angry vigilantes.