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TIL almost 1/3 of Canadians under 34 still live at home

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4M66 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
WgPN TIL that one of the Vatican’s own astronomers, and the curator of of the Vatican’s meteorite collection, dismisses creationism as “…a kind of paganism”.
ovG8 TIL Feminist activist Gloria Steinem was opposed to the release of the novel American Psycho due to its portrayal of violence against women. Years later, she married David Bale and became stepmother to Christian Bale, who starred in the film adaptation.
v1XlB TIL China, the country with a population of 1.3 billion, has multiple ghost cities with thousands of villas, skyscrapers and shopping malls that are still unoccupied.
xV5RD TIL There have been several cases whereby identical twins are acquitted of crimes even though one of them is a definitely guilty as identical twins have almost identical DNA and legal system cannot afford to punish the wrong twin for the crime.