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TIL farmers are hacking into their John Deere tractors with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums

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pNQN TIL Will Smith only agreed to be in the Fresh Prince of Bell-Air so he could pay off his $2.8 million debt to the IRS.
YpkVd TIL humans could walk on Titan without a pressurized space suit, only a breathing mask and protection from the cold.
4kpn6 TIL a man suffering from fatal familial insomnia, a condition whereby you become biologically incapable of sleep, attempted vitamin therapy, sensory deprivation, narcoleptics, and anesthesia to sleep, which prolonged his life by 12 months.
e0lgL TIL that the reason there was a talking robot in Rocky 4 was because Stallone used that robot at home to help his autistic son, so he wrote it into the script so that he could have his son on set with his robot and care worker
oZMR TIL you absorb roughly half the protein from an egg if you eat it raw vs cooking it. In other words, Rocky would have been better off frying his eggs as opposed to drinking them raw.