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TIL: Mr Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating him.

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N7v7N TIL that a group of reporters submitted a computer generated fake 'research' paper to a scientific journal... and it was published.
Y98W TIL that camels originated in the present day United States and only later spread to Asia and North Africa
Db6V TIL that in Germany, when a kid becomes an adult at age 18, it can get rid of all its debt by offering its debtors everthing its owns at that point. The young adult is relieved from all other debts they can’t pay back so that no young adult has to face a life in debt for things they did as teenager.
aBvJ TIL Stanley Kubrick said that he didn’t use drugs because “when everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful”.
ojoW TIL “Halo” was originally a Mac game that Steve Jobs wanted to use to make Mac a viable gaming platform