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TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 5 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize

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P1QwG TIL about a series of Bald Eagle attacks in the late 1800s to early 1900s resulting in many injuries and deaths, particularly to children.
ADZOn TIL that the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus is so infectious that one man in Hong Kong infected 183 people in 8 appartment buildings with one horriffic bowel movement, causing a plume of aerosolised faeces to circulate through the ventiltion system and outside on the wind.
AjK7 TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War
xrB TIL that the most expensive liquor in the world retails for 1.5 million USD, and when sold will set a Guinness World Record.
YY6d TIL Over the objections of their supervisors and colleagues, Dr. Emil Freireich and Dr. Emil Frei tackled children’s Leukemia with combination chemotherapy with four different kind of drugs. Today, the cure rate for this form of cancer is more than 90 percent.