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TIL In 2010 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a judgment in a case where the sole disputed issue was whether or not Nickelback was a suitable band.

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gRGX TIL that school administrators let 16-year old Bill Gates write the computer code to schedule their students in classes. He modified the code so he was placed with “a disproportionate number of interesting girls”.
lo4RG TIL English words with Arabic origin include: alcohol, algorithm, assassin, average, candy, chemistry, coffee, cotton, lemon, orange, magazine, mattress, sofa, traffic, and zero
Xj1Q TIL that Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of wartime Japan, was fitted with a new set of dentures by US medical staff after his failed suicide attempt in 1945. The phrase “Remember Pearl Harbor” had been secretly drilled into them in Morse code.
JYvEB TIL Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, was a critic of the Armenean genocide that Turkey today denies, writing "millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacre".
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