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TIL a disabled person sued Chipotle because he couldn’t see his burrito being made, and was “Denied the Chipotle Experience”. He won.

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Lkv9p TIL of TempleOS. An operating system written entirely by schizophrenic programmer Terry Davis, who believed his code was a third temple that could talk to God. The innovative os has been noted for its speed, one engineer noting Davis would have been another Wozniak or Jobs were he not mentally ill.
gpxy TIL Most Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, not enough for a major medical, auto, or home, expense
Bg0mx TIL that 26 bishops/archbishops of the Church of England have an automatic right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, the upper house of the UK parliament
gOPW TIL Wolfram Alpha creator received his PhD on theoretical physics at the age of 20
5Yk6D TIL Frederic John Walker aka Johnnie Walker was the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during WWII credited with 17 U boats destroyed. Walker's last duty was protecting the fleet from U-boats during the Normandy landing before his natural death attributed to overwork and exhaustion.