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TIL the band 'Steely Dan' is named after a steam-powered dildo featured in the novel 'Naked Lunch'

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po4A TIL that Microsoft Encarta (original codename “Gandalf”) began as a pet project for Bill Gates around 1985 after being rejected by Encyclopaedia Britannica as a partner in making material available to PC users as a CD-ROM. Encarta’s eventual demise in 2009 was widely attributed to Wikipedia
LkQ6r TIL of the Mondragon Corporation, a Basqué company of >70000 workers that operates as a worker's cooperative. It exists as a quasi socialist enterprise in a capitalist system.
W6jA TIL that a year after his wife’s disappearance, a Dutch crime writer wrote a book about a husband killing his wife. Without a body he wasn’t prosecuted and became a minor celebrity until, years later, the body was found and he was convicted of murder.
D1LGV TIL: The scientific publication 'Super-mesenteric-vein-expia-thrombosis, the clinical sequelae can be quite atrocious' was published about a serious complication of appendicitis
jNDGE TIL although Wayne’s World (1992) was released after Freddie Mercury died, he got to see the car headbanging scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody shortly before he passed away on November 24, 1991. He loved it and foresaw how the use of the song would ignite a comeback for Queen in the United States.