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TIL: A Korean programmer made a ransomware program as a joke, requiring the victim to get a high score in the Japanese bullet hell shooter "Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object" on the highest difficulty to get their files back.

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ANLXa TIL of sky burial, a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop and left to decompose or be eaten by vultures.
DQgJg TIL Dogs have sweat glands in their paws.
YpMNB TIL: Only in the twentieth century did humans decide that the dandelion was a weed. Before the invention of lawns, the golden blossoms and lion-toothed leaves were more likely to be praised as a bounty of food, medicine and magic. Gardeners used to weed out the grass to make room for the dandelions.
4RVg TIL The Grey School of Wizardry is a school specializing in occult magic, operating primarily online and as a non-profit educational institution in the State of California. The school is reported to be the first wizard school to be officially recognized as an academic establishment.
d8jYj TIL the most G force a person has survived was in the 2003 Chevy 500 when the car driven by Kenny Bräck made contact with Tomas Scheckter's car. This immediately resulted in Bräck's car impacting the catch fence that would record a peak of 214 g meaning he weighed 30000 lbs for a few seconds.