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TIL That Sony sued itself in 2000

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9YMKG TIL György Dózsa was executed extremelly cruelly. They made him sit on a heated iron throne and wear a heated iron crown. Then they made his rebel soldiers bite and eat his flesh while priests were singing songs.
DQoJP TIL Women are faster than men in 'ultra' long distance races of over 195 miles
awQab TIL the chemist who invented napalm (which has killed hundreds of thousands of people) went on to later invent the corticosteroid prednisone (which has saved hundreds of thousands of people.)
loBxa TIL the last man to walk on the moon wrote his daughter's initials in the moon dust. When the shuttle program later began, he chose to leave NASA, saying: "Once you've gone to the moon, staying home just isn't good enough."
7MBr TIL the Danish government recreated the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale, made of 4000 billion bricks. Players, exploiting a loophole, blew it up and planted an American flag.