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TIL that computer scientist and mathematician, Alan Turing, died after biting into an apple laced with cyanide. It was rumored that the Apple Inc. logo had a bite taken from it to represent the poison apple. The designer has said, it wasn’t, but “It’s a wonderful urban legend.”

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Wkbj4 TIL that, In 2018 a federal court judge from Michigan struck down ban on Islamic Female Genital mutilation in USA and dropped charges on accused who mutilated at least nine underage girls. Claiming "Congress did not have the right to criminalize the practice of Female Genital Mutilation"
p8nR4 TIL that Coca-Cola is the number one soft drink in the world in every country except for four countries, one being Cuba, another is North Korea, and the last is Myanmar, where they just entered the market. The final and most interesting is Scotland where Irn Bru reigns supreme.
KY0VE TIL that is was a common practice of the Roman emperor Geta to make puzzles for his grammarians, asking them to characterize the sounds of different animals
BLKk TIL You can count to 12 on one hand by using your thumb to count the bones of each finger. This might explain the base 12 and base 60 number systems we use for telling time and measuring angles.
1alZ8 TIL babies are born without proper knee caps. Instead they have cartilage on their knees that eventually hardens into bone. The lack of boney knee caps makes them more flexible during birth and while learning to crawl and walk.