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TIL A man has named Uzi Nissan has held the rights to Nissan.com for over 20 years despite Nissan Motors attempts to acquire the domain

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kO8a1 TIL that Samuel Rowbotham who created the Flat Earth Society dropped out of school at the age of 9.
v5VL TIL: In 1986 a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in the blink of an eye.
e01w6 TIL of the "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary", a myth from the Middle Ages about a plant that sprouted sheep instead of fruit. For hundreds of years people would write about & even draw this wool-covered plant. We now know what it was: the cotton plant.
8evna TIL: Donnie Dunagan is a Marine major that served in Vietnam and led a boot camp for years before retiring in 1977. He is also the voice of Bambi in the 1942 classic movie.
BgOwD TIL that in 1997, a crew member on the USS Yorktown (CG-48) entered 0 into a database field. It caused the Remote Data Base Manager to attempt to divide by zero, causing all machinery on the network to stop working, including the propulsion system.