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TIL That there was a violent street gang in 1980’s NYC called The Decepticons, and their leader called himself Megatron.

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Yeex TIL Because of a design flaw, when Apple III owners had problems (like garbled data) they were instructed to “lift the machine 3 inches and drop it in order to re-seat the chips on the logic board.”
OEDe TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
p5ZZ TIL Kent Hovind, prominent figure of the young earth creationist movement, and often cited as an expert by YECs, has never earned a college degree in any field of science, has never received any accredited college degree, and is in prison for multiple criminal convictions.
9w8jr TIL that the music theme associated with the circus was originally composed by Julius Fučík as a military march.
Oo6WX TIL American founding father George Wythe was poisoned by his great-nephew, George Sweeney. Even though Wythes black housekeeper provided evidence against Sweeney, it was thrown out in court because a black person could not legally testify against a white person, and Sweeney went free.