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TIL that according to John Deere farmers don’t own the tractors but merely have “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle” and claims it is illegal to access to the diagnostic software because someone might pirate music from the system.

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5oJr TIL “channel drift” is a term used to describe when a TV channel loses it’s original purpose. (The Learning Channel showing Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
1aDbd TIL: Criminals Poison About 1000 Dogs Per Week in South Africa
P1Mn TIL Enigma (German WWII encryption) was broken in part because operators used guessable passcodes, including letter repeats, adjacent key letters, four letter German names, and obscenities.
Oo9rR Til the Great Chinese Famine had more deaths in areas at produced more food per capita. Nancy Qian and Pierre Yared showed that aggregate production was sufficient for avoiding famine and that the famine was caused by over-procurement and poor distribution by the government
x66y1 TIL in 2019, Ariana Grande became the first artist since The Beatles to claim the top 3 spots on the Billboard Hot 100. The last time the honor was earned, the #1 song was about how "money can't buy me love" vs "7 Rings" where Grande declares "retail therapy my new addiction."