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TIL that the Sanskrit word for war literally means “a desire for more cows”

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X9YP TIL there are “marijuana vending machines” in the United States which allow prescribed users to scan their fingerprints to acquire a medicinal dosage of marijuana.
eyeL TIL that German children are taught the dangers of misbehavior through traumatic stories. These include a child having his thumbs cut off for thumbsucking and a girl who burns to death for playing with matches
gMZPX TIL that Prince took guardianship of a 16-year-old fan before beginning a sexual relationship with her at 19, and marrying her at 22.
y8g8 TIL that when Carl McCunn was lost in the Alaskan wilderness and a plane flew low by him, he put his fists up and started to celebrate being rescued, but the plane continued on. The fists were the signal to ‘ALL O.K.’.
JYwPm TIL that in 1997 supercomputer Deep Blue made a completely counter-intuitive move against chess player Garry Kasparov that got into his head and may have caused him to lose the match; It was later revealed that a bug caused the computer to make the move at random