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TIL A homeless man was offered $100 or the chance to learn how to code by a stranger. He chose how to code and released an app.

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MeKe0 TIL of Alcuin. An English scholar who taught Charlemagne the remnants of Latin culture left in Britain. He also convinced Charles to stop forced baptisms, writing "We must appeal to the conscience, not compel it by violence. You can force people to be baptised, but you cannot force them to believe."
ANQrl TIL of BioSteel, high-strength fiber-based material produced by goats, genetically modified to produce spider silk.
O8Dg TIL that a ‘we can change any part of this contract, any time we want, without telling you’ can be a 'poison pill’ that invalidates the rest of a contract.
kJPQE TIL that between 2004 and 2017, the number of U.S. men who read for pleasure dropped by 40%, women by 29%.
MQX0 TIL the US signed a treaty in 1977 banning the use of weather modification techniques for warfare.