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TIL Ancient Chinese nobility killed themselves by eating a pound of salt

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aw969 TIL Dennis Ritchie who invented the C programming language, co-created the Unix operating system, and is largely regarded as influencing a part of effectively every software system we use on a daily basis died 1 week after Steve Jobs. Due to this, his death was largely overshadowed and ignored.
Enno TIL two psychologists, to study self-deception, created a provocative questionnaire with the assumption that a response of “no” to any of the questions would be a lie. Some of these questions include: “Have you ever wanted to rape or be raped by someone” “Have you ever enjoyed your bowel movements”
GAx7E TIL the game Ōkami was named the "least commercially successful winner of a game of the year award" in the 2010 version of the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition
KOB6R TIL of William Walker, an American lawyer who raised an army of 45 men and managed to conquered Baja California for a short time. He went on to try and conquer Nicaragua three times, once successfully. Later he tried to conquer some islands that were about to be returned to Honduras from Britain.
eQD4 TIL: That there is a church in Iceland where you can worship the norse gods