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YaAP TIL that in France, a megabyte is called a mega-octet because ‘byte’ means cock, and therefore 'megabyte’ is unintentionally rude.
GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.
kpR4 TIL of Mary Turner, a black woman killed in 1918. A mob hung her upside down from a tree and set her on fire. Still alive, a member of the mob cut her stomach open with a knife. Her unborn child fell on the ground, where it was stomped on and crushed. Finally, her body was shot hundreds of times.
9oVG TIL that two scientists, fed up with spam-like emails from a certain conference, submitted a research paper that consisted of only the phrase “get me off your fucking email list”. The paper was later accepted for publication by the Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.
8ePKZ TIL a chimpanzee’s testicles are 1/3 the weight of its brain, compared to 3% for humans