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TIL that an encrypted copy of Microsoft Bob as included on the Windows XP installation CD to make it more difficult to pirate.

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97dX TIL that Discovery Channel’s reality show “Amish Mafia” is an elaborate hoax
Jmy1 TIL that saturns rings are only ~33 feet thick
Rera TIL that Roosevelt’s “Bull Moose” 3rd Party’s goal was to reverse the domination of politics by business interests
P1ZoL TIL: A scientist involved in the US nuke project determined the age of the world, created the clean room, and campaigned against leaded gasoline because it was poisoning everyone.
MePAA TIL of the Gnostic Gospels. Discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945, these texts carry non-canonical stories of Jesus from the perspectives of Mary Magdalene, Judas, Thomas and others.