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TIL When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they tweeted it from an iPhone.

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R79Wj TIL that one man, Steven Pruitt, was responsible for a third of Wiki pedia's English content with nearly 3 million edits and 35k original articles. Nicknamed the Wizard of Wiki pedia, he still holds the highest number of edits for the English Wiki pedia under the alias "Ser Amantio di Nicolao".
ND56 TIL of Fabian von Schlabrendorff, a member of the German resistance against Hitler who survived the war, because while awaiting his trial, the courtroom took a direct hit from a bomb during an air raid killing the Judge, who had condemned all his of his co-conspirators to death.
woVXW TIL that the old cartoon character Simon Bar Sinister's name is a double pun: "Bar" in ancient Hebrew names means "son of," and a "bar sinister" in heraldry is used to denote a bastard.
jxyE TIL Dana Carvey had heart-bypass that was done incorrectly. He was awarded $7.5 million for medical malpractice which he donated entirely to charity.
xjm0 TIL Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) members are paid a fixed multiple of the national average wage.