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TIL Steve Jobs didn't let his kids use iPads. "“They haven’t used [the iPad]...We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

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RV81 TIL the trailer for “Nymphomaniac”, which included ‘full-frontal fellatio’, was accidentally in theaters to children seeing the PG-rated animation “Frozen”
6E76w TIL that "The War of the Worlds" plot arose from H.G. Wells wondering "if Martians did to Britain what the British had done to the [indigenous] Tasmanians?", which most modern scholars characterize as a genocide.
8aJGV TIL that North Korean reporters and photographers, were required to photograph Kim Il-Sung while standing slightly to his left to hide a large tumor on his neck
R7Br8 TIL Chad Kroeger once paid a drum technician to stick his dick into an electric fan
gr7Zb TIL a doctor named Chester Southam injected his patients with cancer without their consent to see how their bodies would react.