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TIL that farmers in USA are hacking their John Deere tractors with Ukrainian firmware, which seems to be the only way to actually own the machines and their software, rather than rent them for lifetime from John Deere.

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90VQ TIL the first autopsy performed in the New World was for religious reasons. A pair of infant conjoined twins died shortly after birth, and the Catholic Church wanted to determine if they had one soul or two. The doctor, after finding two complete sets of internal organs, declared they had two.
69yVY TIL that the Emperor Claudius' son Britannicus despised his older cousin Nero, persistently calling him his birth name "Ahenobarbus" despite getting renamed when Claudius adopted him as his co-heir. Shortly after Nero became emperor, he ordered Britannicus murdered with poison at a banquet.
J1ak1 TIL 3D graphics in computers are optical illusion , since the screen is 2D its all about prescriptive ( like 3D optical illusions and drawings on papers or walls)
QJepX TIL that Angela Morley, the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, was John Williams’ primary orchestrator throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She helped write and arrange the scores for Star Wars, ET, The Empire Strikes Back, Home Alone, Superman, and Schindler’s List.
W7Y8X TIL Though the gangster John Gotti was nicknamed 'The Teflon Don' for his ability to dodge criminal charges his violent and public tactics led to the arrests of many Gambino crime family members. Gotti was convicted in 1992 and by the 2000 half of the Gambino made men were behind bars.