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TIL Finger binary allows a person to represent up to 32 on a single hand and up to 1023 using both hands. The middle finger represents the number 4.

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E1Yjp TIL Dr. Seuss' first wife committed suicide after finding out he was cheating on her while she had cancer
nWK1b TIL the Unabomber's (Ted Kaczynski) cabin was in FBI storage for several years before becoming a museum piece.
vE98 TIL bestiality was not illegal in Washington until 2005, when a man named Kenneth Pinyan died from internal injuries from having receptive anal sex with a horse on film. At a horse brothel. TIL there’s a thing called a horse brothel.
Obre TIL that in 1944, the British conceived a plan to assassinate Hitler while he was staying at his vacation residence. However, they ultimately decided against it as Hitler was such a poor strategist at that stage that they believed whoever replaced him would do a better job of fighting the Allies.
9rMp TIL that the Latin translation of reddit is “It gives back”, which would make a redditor “a rewarder” or “one who gives back”