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TIL the Windows Calculator is open source(MIT license) and anyone can modify or contribute to it.

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YpJw7 TIL that masochism is named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an activist for women's and Jewish emancipation, who enjoyed being a slave to dominant and cruel women dressed up in furs
v1GrK TIL of Jonathan Reed, a man who loved his wife so much that when she died, he moved into her tomb. He decorated it like a home and even brought their parrot to live with them. “My only pleasure is to sit here with all that is left of her.”
l79YA TIL Adelle Hugo, Victor Hugo's daughter, developed schizophrenia in her mid 20's, she became obsessed with a soldier she had initialy rejected and left her home in Jersey to stalk him across all his millitary deployments in Ireland, Canada and finally the Island of Barbados
DbXY TIL Jason Alexander (George Costanza) is a practicing magician, and only switched to acting as a career when he realized that he was unlikely to succeed as a magician.
Z8MMB TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”