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TIL there’s a word for the “seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects”: resistentialism

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e0G4 TIL - in 2009 Bill Gates purchased the rights to the Feynman Lectures so that he could annotate them and make them freely available.
W7MO9 TIL John Hawkins was the first Englishman to profit off of the triangle trade of enslaved Africans to the Americas. Harkins' journeys also brought the sweet potato and tobacco to England.
j6wba TIL there is a form of breast augmentation called a Vampire Breast Lift, where the patient's own blood plasma is drawn from their arm then injected into their chest to "plump up their cleavage"
E1Rb7 TIL that there is a literary magazine titled "Taco Bell Quarterly" dedicated to writing about "any and all elements of Taco Bell."
LjMm TIL in the 1950s, while conducting civil rights protests in Monroe, NC against a strong Ku Klux Klan opposition, the NAACP enlisted protection from a local NRA chapter, who were determined to defend the local black community from racist attacks.