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TIL that unpaid moderators were able to successfully sue AOL for $15mil, legally they were considered employees

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b6MGa TIL about the Grafton castaways, a real-life version of Gilligan's Island. Shipwrecked in 1864 on the Auckland Islands for almost 20 months, 5 men survived by building a thatched hut with glass windows and bookshelves. They crafted a forge to work metal, tanned leather, made soap from seashells etc.
rnGW TIL that in Texas in 2009, a Craigslist escort took $150 from a man, refused to have sex, then got in a car and left. The man sprayed her car with his AK-47, killing her. He was acquitted because state law permits the “use of deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft.”
R7w4a TIL I learned that the classic Mahna Mahna song from the muppets came from an Italian Softcore porno.
mx0bO TIL that my hometown, Bologna - in Italy - freed all the slaves, and thence banned slavery, in 1256 AD. To celebrate the newly freed men, they had all their names written down in a document called Liber Paradisus (Heaven's Book).
awJ9J TIL That Tokyo has more people living in it than all of Canada