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TIL Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was brought down because he created forged documents using a Microsoft font which didn’t exist when they were supposed to have been written.

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R7o7j TIL-Planned systemic obsolescence is deliberately making a product obsolete by altering the system in which it is used as to make its continued use difficult such as not accommodating forward compatibility in software, or changing screws so that they cannot easily be operated on with existing tools.
O18Y TIL Building an averaged size house (79 sq m) out of Lego would cost almost 6 times more than building it from real bricks.
DQpkr TIL Musical Saturist Tom Lehrer released all his music and Lyrics in to the Public Domain in 2007 - and is still alive
OG9M4 TIL that there is a specific type for ink suitable for sublimation.
R79Y9 TIL that Brian Blessed once accidentally punched Peter Capaldi in the face and sent him to hospital as a result.