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TIL Cookie Monster has a ‘real name’ — and it isn’t Cookie Monster

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LkP9r TIL the Roanoke colony was never “lost”.
QOx9 TIL the IRS uses 56 year old software to receive taxpayer data and dispense refunds.
9YAJB TIL that Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son, William Franklin (1730 - 1813), was a staunch Loyalist during the American Revolution and even organized British military units to fight in the war. After the war, he and Benjamin Franklin never reconciled.
6g98 TIL that there are bands of wild macaque monkeys living near the Silver River in Florida, USA.
kdm7 TIL that in 1995 an Australian doctor created the ‘Deliverance Machine’: a euthanasia device which utilised a software called 'Deliverance’ - patients were posed three questions via a notebook computer, if they answered yes to all three, the machine administered a lethal dose of barbiturates.