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TIL The man who was allegedly assaulted in a McDonald’s for wearing a cybernetic eye (Steve Mann) was also assaulted in 2004, and the attack also damaged the memory buffer of his device and stored images of the attacker.

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W7QNd TIL about the ghost ship SS Baychimo, who was abandoned in 1931 and expected to sink, but she didn't sink and kept popping up, last seen in 1969 she could still be sailing around out there.
awylA TIL at the time of his fatal heart attack rapper Big Pun weighed 698 lbs (317 kg). About 10 years earlier he weighed around 180 lbs (~80 kg).
4X7bR TIL Microsoft lost $4 billion with the original Xbox console since it had a manufacturing price far more expensive than its retail price
6E1Rw TIL Winston Churchill and Princess Diana were from the same aristocratic family, the Spencers. Churchill's last name was officially Spencer-Churchill.
6EVYY TIL that in 2005 Agostino Vespucci's notes were found, written in 1503, revealing that Leonardo Da Vinci was busy painting a "half-length portrait painting of Lisa del Giocondo", Mona Lisa.