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TIL Canonical (the people behind Ubuntu) are partners with Microsoft

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wojlP TIL a woman filed a lawsuit on an insurance firm after claiming she contracted an STI as a result of having sex in her boyfriend's car (which is insured by the firm). She won and was awarded $5,200,000
R7NBQ TIL that researchers from Aalto University in Finland have successfully tested quantum teleportation of macroscopic objects
l7DPN TIL - Of Fox tossing, a blood sport popular in 18th & 17th century Europe where people would compete to sling a fox or other small animal into the air. This was usually fatal for the fox.
epvr4 TIL that Guitar Center was originally named The Organ Center. When the Beatles became popular, the organ supplier demanded that Organ Center begin selling Vox guitar amplifiers.
8jDa TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.