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TIL America's oldest farm has been operating continuously since 1636

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wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.
oBO5R TIL A man in Michigan whose house was set to be demolished, switched house numbers with his neighbor, so that they ended up demolishing the wrong house. The crews demolished the wrong house.
mxKdv TIL there is a controversial murder defence called the 'rough sex murder defence', or '50 Shades defence', which asserts that the victim consented or even demanded sexual practices that led to the homicide.
R7kE4 TIL the moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. Scientists call this synchronous rotation.
D1yyp TIL that over 4000 years ago the first ever customer complaint was recorded in Sumerian, regarding poor quality ore.