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TIL scientists accidentally killed world’s oldest animal at age 507

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7r1Db TIL two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued.
1aV9O TIL Madonna leaked a fake version of her album to pirates where every song was a loop of her saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Then a hacker posted the real songs on her own site for everyone to download.
54eD TIL for most states in the U.S. you don’t need to commit an arrestable offense in order to be lawfully accused of resisting arrest.
R7jLj TIL the CIA once tried to scare Pakistani children with Osama Bin Laden toys in which its skin would peel off to reveal a demon face.
xQN1 TIL Noah Webster wanted “women” spelled like “wimmen” and “tongue” spelled like “tung”.