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TIL Mark Hamill appeared on a progressive death metal album.

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a8k6M TIL of 17 year old Trey Sims who was prosecuted for sexting his gf, detective David Abbott got a search warrant authorizing him to take photos of his erect penis. Detective also made him to masturbate so he can take pics of his erect penis, court deemed this search illegal 3 years later on appeal.
69ENm TIL that Texas Instruments has gone back and forth on how their calculators handle implicit multiplication with ambiguous notation, e.g. 8÷2(2+2). Different products will give different answers.
p8OMp TIL - the early model pay phones had three slots, one for nickels, dimes and quarters. Each slot would play a different sounding bell, letting the operator on the line calculate how much money was deposited
1avnO TIL The Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of the Virgin Mary, not the conception of Jesus Christ (the Virginal Conception)
woZn7 TIL that there exists a god of stupidity. His name is Koalemos (Κοάλεμος), and he's a minor Greek diety.