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TIL in 2009, an abusive litigant sued a man for $30k for selling him a $40 printer on Craigslist, claiming it was broken. The case lasted for 6½ years and, as of 2016, may still be on-going.

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MnV7 TIL - Alcohol is considered a performance-enhancing drug in competitive shooting competitions.
4k4Da TIL people over 40 are a protected class in California. We’re not that old damn it!
awWE9 TIL The idiom see a man about a dog (horse) Is from the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud. In the play, a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, "Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to see a man about a dog."
8WEX TIL: Between 1896 and the 1940s, thousands of people paid to see premature babies being incubated at circus sideshows. Since most hospitals didn’t have the funding available to provide incubators, it was the best chance to safe the infant’s lives.
D1oAJ TIL A novice lensmaker was the first person to directly observe human sperm cells, by looking at his own under a microscope. He is now considered the father of microbiology.