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TIL the term 'spam' referring to unwanted junk emails comes from Monty Python's Spam sketch

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MeJ50 TIL A Washington man sued his local sheriff’s department for violating his Fourth Amendment right against unlawful search and seizure after they searched his house thinking it was robbed, found out it was the wrong one, then told him he was lucky he wasn’t shot.
awYwy TIL that the band Death Cab for Cutie is named after a song performed by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in 1967
8emva TIL Oscar winners are forbidden from selling or disposing of their trophies without first offering it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for $1.
rNwby TIL the upper survival time limit of properly stored seeds remains unknown. The oldest viable seed that has grown into a full plant was an about 2,000 years old Judean date palm seed
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