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TIL: Class action lawsuits are not really for the consumers

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yVoep TIL Japan's real name as it's called in the Japanese word "Nihon" (日本) literally translates as: The "Land of the Rising Sun"/"The Origin of the Sun". This name was apparently given because the sun rose over Japan from China's POV. The English word "Japan" comes from a different early Mandarin word.
DEEP TIL Napoleon said of torture: “It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.”
v1vlx TIL that L. Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz", wanted to exterminate all remaining American Indians in the 1890s
nWovP TIL In 1971 Michael S. Hart created the first eBook by typing the United States Declaration of Independence into a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer at the University of Illinois. Soon after he transmitted the text to other users on the mainframe’s network.
16RNd TIL the A's baseball team used to have sheep grazing in the outfield