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TIL that a Canadian teenager once settled out of court and exchanged his domain name MikeRoweSoft.com for an xbox and games from Microsoft

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eO5J TIL that German software company SAP actively recruits autistic people because “Only by employing people who think differently and spark innovation will SAP be prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st century”.
LQ1Wm TIL Volcanos in Hawaii can produce hair-like strands of glass called "Pele's Hair."
e0mLb TIL of Jacob Riis, a photographer who pioneered social reform through his photos of everyday life in the slums of New York in the 1890s. His book is called, “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.
x65Po TIL That primes numbers used in cryptography aren't 100% primes. They are numbers that has a false positive rate of less than one in a million billion billion of not being primes.
XEnVR TIL in the United States, 78% of people with the name Leslie are female, but in England 95% are male.