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TIL Matrix's iconic green code isn't complicated algorithm but Japanese shushi recipes.

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dDxG7 TIL about the stylitism, a trend among early Christian monks who practiced asceticism by living atop a pillar. One stylite stayed atop his pillar for 54 years without ever coming down
rGKM TIL Nestle is draining water from Poor areas to sell to the poor and fought to take away water as a human right.
85BX TIL that after the 1628 Batavia disaster, two dutch sailors were left to die in Australia…or so everyone thought. A century later, British settlers found unusually light-skinned Aborigines in the area that suggest the two marooned sailors may have actually thrived instead.
5o7R TIL that in 1995 the Church of Scientology imprisoned, dehydrated and starved a mentally ill woman for 17 days until she died.
kOXQ4 TIL George Carlin recorded an HBO special on Sept 9 and 10, 2001 entitled ‘I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die.’