› added 9 years ago

71

TIL John Deere locks tractors digitally to prevent the DIY repairing by the owner, stating safety concerns as reason.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WkJkd TIL that after Nietzsche's death, his sister, Elizabeth reworked his unpublished writings to fit her own nationalist ideology, contradictory to Friedrich Nietzsche's opposition to antisemitism and nationalism.
1mw7 TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges
rNXk0 TIL that the Republic of Venice ruled colonies throughout the Eastern Mediterranean from the end of the first millennium to 1797, at times including Crete, Cyprus and numerous Greek islands.
B7eL TIL that approximately 8% of all rams (male sheep) exhibit an exclusive sexual preference for other rams and this preference is linked to a decreased volume of a particular brain region compared to “straight” rams.
oR7DY TIL Singer Barry White was a heavy smoker and smoked around 150 cigarettes, or 7 to 8 packs, per day.