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TIL Wikipedia has banned edits from any IP address owned by the Church of Scientology

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ax10 TIL Tiger Woods, despite being worth $500 million dollars, once pulled a “mulligan” by taking back a $5 tip to a waitress after realizing he had tipped her earlier in the day. By the way, he was playing a $10,000 hand of blackjack at the time.
J1JDk TIL that in 1691, a Swedish farmhand was executed for having sexual intercourse with a mountain-nymph
P1K0n TIL The Tel Dan Stele refers to a “House of David” which scholars believe is referring to the Bible’s King David
NX8Y6 TIL that the PNG format was developed because the GIF compression algorithm (LZW) was patented by Unisys, which required a usage fee. The patent expired in 2003 in the USA and in 2004 in Europe
Egyvp TIL about the Baseball Experiment where researchers tested the relationship between reading comprehension and prior knowledge.