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TIL a 12-year-old was awarded $3,000 for finding couple of bugs in Mozilla codebase

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LQ1YQ TIL That the white dried dog poop on lawns of the 70s and 80s was related to excess calcium in dog foods at the time. Less commercial bone meal in todays dog food recipes makes it virtually a thing of the past.
WZBd TIL: North Carolina performed forced sterilizations well into 1970s to combat poverty and welfare costs. If their board deamed you mentally defective, that was their solution.
wO4W TIL that there is a 100% effective, safe form of reversible male birth control… that is unavailable because no corporations will back it, as they are afraid they won’t make any money from it as it is very cheap and effective after one use.
MvrB TIL the founder of Wendy’s, Dave Thomas went back to high school in 1993 to get his GED because he was worried that his success as a dropout might convince some teenagers to quit school.
ADeba TIL Zipper entrapment is the most common cause of penile trauma in adults, with roughly around 2000 cases yearly.