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TIL that Microsoft Engineers received (anonymized) every query that you asked of Clippy. A lonely woman poured out her every fear and her loneliness to that paperclip while the MS engineers could do nothing but watch her life unfold, one line at a time.

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kOwwm TIL when Apple finds underage workers in its suppliers’ factories they make the suppliers return the children to their homes, pay for their education and continue to provide income for basic needs until they reach the legal working age. After this, suppliers must offer them reemployment.
jNWlp TIL the Okinawa Islands were home to the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was culturally & politically distinct from Japan. Though its languages were related (though unintelligible to) Japanese, they were seen as a foreign people with a different culture, before it was annexed into Japan & mostly assimilated.
WXPd TIL a serial killer responsible for the murder of more than 135 children will be released from prison no later than 2021, possibly sooner with “good behavior”.
D1L7J TIL that the blanket octopus has the biggest sexual size-dimorphism of any non microscopic organism. Females can be 6 feet long, while males are only 2.4 cms long.
x60oD TIL there is a disease called Maple Syrup Urine Disease, an inhereted genetic disorder which causes your urine to smell like maple syrup within 48 hours of child birth, that when untreated leads to metabolic crisis (comas, seizures, spasms) eventually causing death.