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TIL that the US pays rent for Guantanamo Bay, but Cuba refuses to cash the checks.

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JYgdk TIL Nirvana's Kurt Cobain made out with his bandmates on live TV "just to spite homophobes."
d89J9 TIL in 2006 a design for masks made out of pre-shrunk T-shirts was published for situations when N95 masks were unavailable.
1an97 TIL Draconian laws are named after the 1st Greek legislator, Draco, who meted out severe punishment for very minor offenses. These included enforced slavery for any debtor whose status was lower than that of his creditor and the death sentence for stealing a cabbage.
n7gB TIL that George R.R. Martin writes his novels using WordStar 4, a DOS program from 1987.
KYEja TIL among the official HTTP client error response codes (like "404: Not Found"), status code "418: I'm a teapot" is the code used to indicate that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot.