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TIL the death of Chris Benoit’s wife was written in wikipedia 14 hours before the bodies were found

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YjxG TIL in a lawsuit where a company called SCO tried to sue IBM for $5 billion over their alleged use of Unix code in Linux, an IBM lawyer was quoted as saying “If you proceed with this horseshit the sky over Utah will blacken with lawyers”
x6Xdg TIL until last year (2021), gas pumps in Hawaii were not allowed to have a hands free mode.
W7pPN TIL That Celiac Disease, Which Requires People to Be Gluten Free, Has Nothing to do With Allergies, But Is Instead an Autoimmune Disease That Can Cause Serious Permanent Damage
AOr4 TIL there is a custom in Japan called “Namahage” in which men dressed up as demon-like monsters scare the living shit out of children who are “guilty of laziness or bad behavior” while parents smile and laugh while their children scream and cry in terror. (Video in comments)
69K1Y TIL that Carl von Linné's remains constitute the type specimen for Homo Sapiens