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TIL German poet “Heinrich Heine” left his entire estate to his wife, but with one condition: she had to remarry “because then there will be at least one man to regret my death.”

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Vx10 TIL while in middle-school, Bill Gates and Paul Allen had their computer privileges revoked for taking advantage of software glitches to obtain free computer time from the company that provided the computers. They were allowed back in the computer lab when they offered to debug the program.
R5nM8 TIL there are about 1000 train derailments per year in the US. Almost 3 per day
PYy9n TIL fish don't sleep but most fish do rest by reducing their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger.
b9YD7 TIL Yogi Bear was one of several Hanna-Barbera characters to have a collar. This allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke—a method that reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000.
4XApJ TIL that in South Korea it is illegal to sell phones with unremovable software that is not critical to system operation or maintenance.