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TIL a student designed the RECYCLING logo & got paid out a whopping $2500.

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PYvLZ TIL prior to 2002, psilocybin mushrooms were widely available in Japan and were often sold in mail-order shops, online vendors and in head shops throughout Japan; according to Japan's Health Ministry narcotics division, prior to 2002, "You can find them anywhere."
OweR TIL in 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.
NRlM TIL a “Sploot” is the word for how some pets lay stretched on their belly with their legs behind them
ArGa TIL on November 20, 2004, at the annual Harvard–Yale football game Yale students, costumed as a Harvard “pep squad”, gave out placards to a section of Harvard fans which, when raised together, read “WE SUCK”.
1a1g4 TIL it's called Firmware because it exists on the boundary between Hardware and Software