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TIL that the invention of Wifi involved a failed experiment by Australian scientists to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle.

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xVJ4B TIL about Wittgenstein's poker: During an argument, Ludwig Wittgenstein, brandishing a poker, challenged Karl Popper to name a single example of a moral rule, to which Popper replied 'not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers'.
YpyLW TIL that in a Himalayan village of Malana, in case of conflict between two people, two lambs are assigned to each party – making a deep cut in the foreleg to insert poison in the body. The party whose lamb dies earlier is believed to have lost the case.
1pO TIL that the first Spaniard to meet Mesoamericans died fighting for his adopted homeland - against Spain
okP8 TIL it is possible for HIV positive males to conceive babies without passing on HIV. A technique called Sperm Washing separates the sperm from the infected seminal fluid.
DkOV TIL that Anonymous chose the Guy Fawkes mask out of practicality and not for its meaning; it was the only mask readily available worldwide for their 2008 protest against Scientology.