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TIL North Korea has its own operating system (RED STAR OS) and it looks like Apple’s OS X

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y4ep TIL in 1990, Mr. Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating his voice in prerecorded messages. These messages said “AIDS was divine retribution” and included radio skits simulating lynchings of black children on a playground. The tapes were circulated among elementary and middle school children.
p8odQ TIL of the Battle of Annual, where 3000 Moroccan rebels defeated over 23,000 Spanish Soldiers.
Xbk8 TIL the sound Hypnotoad from Futurama makes is a recording of a turbine engine played backwards.
X077j TIL about the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a conspiracy that suggests that the AD dating system was fabricated to place Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII at 1000 AD. According to this, the years AD 614 - 911 (the early Middle Ages) never happened.
b6EB7 TIL Fleece Johnson 'Booty Warrior' is out of prison and he published a book about his life