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

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Vr4G TIL There is an annual conference on boring things. In the past people have given talks on barcodes, sneezing and the sounds of vending machines.
MVvW TIL that there was a Hutt jedi in Star Wars who would later turn to the darkside
ePNk TIL that both co-directors of King Kong appeared in the 1933 film as the pilots who finally killed him, because “We should kill the sonofabitch ourselves.”
R5Kd4 TIL about "scientific" matchmaking tests Hugo Gernsback proposed in the 1920s, which describes four tests that can be given to a couple to assess whether a marriage will succeed.
7Nab TIL In WWII, a soldier named Don Karkos was hit with shrapnel and blinded his right eye, 64 years later while working at a barn, a horse head butted him in the same spot, threw him against the wall and suddenly his vision was restored.