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TIL (Technically Yesterday): We drink 1 to 2 QUARTS of Snot Each Day

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0drrv TIL there was a company called Psystar Corporation that manufactured computers running Apple's Mac OS X Leopard without their permission, resulting in lawsuits from Apple.
OG6Kg TIL Nick Cage’s screen name was inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage and composer John Cage
OGjMX TIL in 1957, the BBC aired an April Fools news report about 'spaghetti harvesting' in Switzerland, showing farmers picking pasta from trees. The hoax was so convincing that even the BBC Director General was fooled, and viewers called in asking how to grow their own spaghetti trees.
QeZX TIL That killing an opposing boxer in the original Olympic Games resulted in the dead boxer being declared the winner
8ageG TIL in the 1950s there was a past-life and hypnosis craze in the U.S. that started when a hypnotized housewife began randomly speaking in an Irish brogue.