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Til I learned that theres a group in germany called Prevention Project Dunkelfeld that gives clinical and support services to Peadophiles that haven’t offended and want to control their sexual urges.

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YpaBd TIL when Bill Gates was in high school, he hacked the school computers so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students
VML5p TIL that a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process (like a mailer-daemon). The name is taken from Maxwell's demon, an imaginary being from a thought experiment that constantly works in the background, sorting molecules.
W77Ad TIL more than 35,000 Americans served in the Canadian Army in WWI, accounting for nearly 10% of all Canadian soldiers
aweMy TIL that there’s a plantation turned prison in Louisiana that looks straight out of the 1800’s making prisoners pick cotton while guards are on horseback
R7E94 TIL that the crime that led Sisyphus to push a boulder was cheating death. He made his wife not bury him properly before he died, chained death, and tricked Persephone into letting him briefly return to earth to scold his wife and ran away instead of returning to hell.