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TIL Morality is present in animals and predates religions.

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oZ7A TIL Conan O'Brien was stalked by a Catholic Priest who followed him and his family, and even threatened to kill him, because he was denied a spot in the Late Night audience.
6m4l TIL that a mosquito sitting on your arm exerts more gravitational pull on you than the moon.
9w7Gp TIL each pawn in chess had a specific name/profession based on its starting position on the board
XEmMR TIL In 1998, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against Microsoft, in essence claiming that Microsoft included too much functionality in its operating systems and thus prevented application vendors from competing.
W7VVL TIL in 1969, Paul McCartney’s head went missing from a Los Angeles billboard promoting the Beatles album “Abbey Road”. The mystery remained unsolved until 2012, when a man named Robert Quinn confessed that he stole it as a prank on his 19th birthday and still has McCartney’s head in his living room.