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TIL someone bought a domain name (GutHib.com) just to say that you spelled GitHub wrong.

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4krRX TIL that it used to be a requirement for people in the United States to submit to a blood test when they were applying for marriage licenses. The last state to get rid of this mandatory testing was Montana in 2019.
rdgo TIL Anders Celsius originally created the temperature scale with 100 degrees as freezing and 0 degrees as boiling. Carl Linnaeus, another scientist, waited until he died to change the scale to what it is today.
OoYl1 TIL Benjamin Burnley, the lead singer of Breaking Benjamin, was asked by EA to speak positively of Star Wars Battlefront in exchange for money. His response: "They wanted to pay me to post that I like this piece of shit game. They can shove it up their ass. This game sucks..."
b9ZR7 TIL ducklings indicate signs of abstract thinking. Ducklings demonstrated the ability to think abstractly within hours of being hatched, distinguishing the concepts of “same” and “different” with success.
m1Wby TIL about the Lake Megachad. Some 10'000 years ago Africa was a lot wetter than today, and lake Chad was considerably larger back then. What a chad!