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TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is Microsoft's longest-running software product line, predating Windows by three years

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LWR9 TIL Brazilian law requires every hotel to provide condoms to every guest
EwVx TIL that in the history of Ireland’s inventions, there’s a 300-year gap after the invention of whiskey.
Amw4 TIL scientists found a tomato plant on a 40 year old volcanic island. They were dumbfounded as to how it got there. It turned out that it grew from the poop that a scientist had taken on the island.
R5aj9 TIL American rapper Jay-Z stabbed a man in at an album release party, with a 5-inch blade in the stomach, after rumours the man was behind the bootlegging of one of his albums. He later pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, accepting a 3-year probation sentence.
epKBJ TIL that wiping one's nose & treating it's underlying cause of runnyness (allergy, pathogen, etc) is much more effective and safer for the nasal passages than blowing it