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TIL in 2012 the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that forcing a RuneScape player to relinquish his in-game items constituted property theft, and sentenced the perpetrators as thieves.

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69NYw TIL Most airports in the U.S. have incinerators that burn most of their waste and garbage. This includes burning roadkill, such as deer, that die on airport property.
egW4 TIL there is a large blobby mass called the ‘North Carolina Sewer Monster’ found to be living in the sewers of Raleigh, North Carolina. No one knows exactly what it is composed of and it reacts to light and heat by pulsating and retracting.
enmJ TIL the first webcam was deployed at Cambridge University computer lab – its sole purpose was to monitor a particular coffee maker and hence avoid wasted trips to an empty pot.
vPEE7 TIL that Pornhub has their own record label called Pornhub Records. Under that record label they have released two albums, a valentines day album in 2019 and most recently XXXmas, a Christmas album released in December 2020.
BrMdL TIL North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union as two states instead of one in order to give Republicans more seats in the Senate