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TIL that in the past, people would "download" games by copying the code by hand from magazines

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xw9B TIL that every year on February 14th, the nation of Iran sends Salman Rushdie a reminder of their promise to kill him for writing The Satanic Verses.
9wLRm TIL in 2012, a computer history museum in California sent a team to Sparkler Filters, a company in Texas, to try to coax them into selling their IBM 402 with Model 129 key punch that was being used for accounting work and inventory. In 2013, the company was still using the machine.
l79K7 TIL Americans are actually really stupid people, most of them think America is the world. Can’t name any other country and some can’t even point to where America is. Absolute joke of a country
W7RnN TIL Testosterone is an anabolic steroid. Testosterone, trenbolone, oxymetholone, methandrostenolone, nandrolone, stanozolol, boldenone, and oxandrolone are some of the anabolic steroids that are most commonly encountered by United States law enforcement.
O6k4 TIL downloading copyrighted movies, music and games is legal in the Netherlands. To compensate rights holders, the government added a “piracy tax” to storage media, laptops and tablets.