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TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the EULA before he installed some PC software. The agreement included a clause offering 'financial compensation' to licensees who actually read the license agreement. He emailed the company, referred to the clause and the company sent him a check for $1,000

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69dj8 TIL That there is NO camera phone footage of 9/11. The first US camera phone reached the market in November 2002
VBB5G TIL that Anticipatory Grief is grief you exoerience before a person dies. It is common for children to feel about their parents or the family members of those with terminal illness.
e08Xn TIL in the 1960's the US Air Force forced live black bears to ride rocket sleds and ejected them from jet planes at Mach 2 speeds
OGoye TIL that during the 1976 campaign, Indiana Democrats commissioned a 13-foot statue of a grinning peanut in support of Jimmy Carter
oMo8 TIL on 3rd July 1988 the US Navy shot down a civilian passenger flight killing all 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew.