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TIL : Hinduism has some very strange Transgenderism/Homosexuality stories

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DLaD TIL there was a so called “helpful worm” that would gain access to Windows XP systems, download security patches from Microsoft to close the vulnerability that it used to infect the system, attempt to delete the infamous Blaster worm (if present) from the system, then delete itself.
Ejnx TIL Krispy Kreme stores withdrew ‘Krispy Kreme Klub ’ in UK when they realised their abbreviation of KKK has another meaning.
b6EVj TIL Franklin Pierce, the 14th US president, believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity, so much that he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.
eLMD TIL Syd Barrett, original member of Pink Floyd, experienced extreme synesthesia and would give his band musical directions such as, “Perhaps we could make the middle darker and maybe the end a bit middle afternoonish. At the moment it’s too windy and icy.”
ADkPw TIL that Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, has steadfastly refused to license the characters for any other reason than publishing. This included turning down an offer from Pixar for a Calvin and Hobbes film.