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TIL Microsoft sued a high school student named Mike Rowe after he registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com. He eventually gave up the domain for an Xbox (among other things). He later sold legal documents from the case on eBay for $1,037 as “a piece of Internet history.”

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R7mll TIL the HongKong Dollar being pegged to the US Dollar at a rate of 7.80 under the linked exchange rate system, where the government does not control the supply/demand in the foreign exchange market, exchange rate is stabilised by arbitrage where banks sell HongKong Dollar at a gain/loss.
PYLJZ TIL the Ku Klux Klan expanded into Canada in the 1920s, aiming to distinguish itself from its American counterpart. It's primary focus was to preserve the "Britishness" of Canada, and their robes included a maple leaf opposite the cross insignia.
WkLEY TIL 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness), up from 10-20% 60 years ago
rN0e0 TIL that in 17th-century Naples, a nobleman fought 20 duels to prove Dante Alighieri a greater poet than Ludovico Ariosto, before admitting that he read neither of them
Jkrm TIL Roger Federer is a father of two sets of identical twins. Twin girls born in 2009, and twin boys in 2014.