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TIL Sony released a kit that allows PS2s to be used as a personal computer.

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gr0ZL TIL there are multiple philosophical razors beyond Occam’s Razor, such as Hanlon’s Razor, which suggests “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity,” and Hitchens’ Razor, which claims “what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
Med7b TIL George Orwell was born in India and his real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
p7ap TIL that there IS a word that ryhmes with orange. Sporange is a botany term for a spore holding capsule in types of fungi, molds and ferns,
PYYae TIL that "Mum" in the saying "Mum's the word" is a Middle English word, meaning "Silence"; derived from the "mummer" who does pantomime and just acts without saying anything
BrLOr TIL that in the original opening sequence of The Simpsons, when Maggie is scanned in the check-out, the cash register briefly reads $847.63 which was the monthly cost of raising a baby in America in 1989.