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7rj7X TIL in 2002 an Internet geolocation service began using 38,-97, located in Kansas, as the default coordinates for all IPs it was unable to find. This led to a rural farm getting harassed by incompetent law enforcement investigators, doxxers, and Internet crackpots.
nOBd TIL that besides right-handedness, left-handedness, and ambidexterity, there are also people who are ambisinister, meaning they are awkward or clumsy with both hands.
5V8Jk TIL that like his brother, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, David Kaczynski also spent years rejecting society, living in a hole in the Texas desert covered by metal sheets. David would return to society and eventually provided the FBI with the tip leading to Ted's arrest.
gMxO9 TIL that Napoleon III of France, whose father fought the British (as part of the Seventh Coalition) in the Hundred Days War, is buried with his son, in Farnborough, England.
PY6GV TIL about gympie-gympie, also known as the Suicide Plant. Covered in silica hairs which act like hypodermic needles upon contact, and filled with neurotoxins, simply brushing up against the plant will leave you in excruciating pain for months to years. No treatment is available.