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TIL Seals often visit Loch Ness, swimming up river from the ocean.

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loAp5 TIL that Land of the Lost TV series had a number of respected sci-fi writers contribute scripts to the series, including Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova, Norman Spinrad, and a number of people involved with Star Trek, such as D.C. Fontana, Walter Koenig, and David Gerrold.
BrdRk TIL John Deere forces farmers to pay for expensive repairs due to their proprietary software, and refusal to let farmers self repair their own equipment with open source tools
RA7l TIL that in response to a Tennessee State Legislature bill that prohibited schools from alluding to the existence of gays, George Takei offered up his name, suggesting that people could just substitute Takei for ‘gay’. For example, supporting Takei Marriage or using slurs like That’s so Takei.
9YdOX TIL that when the Canadian government proposed a warrantless wiretap bill, Canadians protested by inundating the Public Safety Minister with grocery lists, and mundane details of their day... The Bill was rejected.