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TIL that there are four different kinds of orgasms

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07J1 TIL In 2004, a hacker from Germany revealed Half Life 2’s source code andValve tried to arrest him by getting him to come to the states for a fake interview.
9wDYr TIL Richard Scolyer, one of the world’s leading skin cancer researchers, was diagnosed with a stage 4 brain cancer, which is said to be terminal, so he used an experimental skin cancer treatment developed by him and his colleagues to treat it. One year later, the cancer still hasn't returned.
LjbZ TIL that the word “Quiz” was created by a Dublin theatre proprietor made a bet that he could make a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would supply a meaning for it.
wo6JJ TIL that as part of a scheme to catch the Zodiac Killer, a movie was made about them.
loLnG TIL of a musician named Elizabeth Cotten. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist, who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player. She played it upside down, as she was left-handed. Her signature style became known as "Cotten picking", and she is known today as a pioneer in the folk genre.