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TIL that QWERTY keyboards were invented to prevent typewriters from jamming. Following its invention, the Dvorak keyboard was introduced and was said to improve typing speed by 5-10% but still is not widely used.

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mxR0P Til Bully sticks are prepared from the bull pizzle (aka penis muscle) which is cleaned, stretched, and twisted before being prepared. Preparation can vary from sun dried to oven baked or smoked. ... Authentic bully sticks are made from 100% beef (the only ingredient is the bull penis).
yAkX TIL former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a sexual maniac who nicknamed his penis “Jumbo” and he would often urinate in public. If anyone confronted him while doing so, he would turn around and say “have you ever seen anything as big as this?”
wLNDE TIL to call someone a monitor lizard in thailand is one of the worst insults or curses in the thai language. so much that people have been killed over it and a politician who called protesters this made front page news. it's so offensive its basically banned in broadcast media.
woKrM TIL Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was the first billionaire to fall off the Forbes billionaire list because of charitable giving: "You have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently."
LkKmZ TIL: Trace Labs - Hackers Find Missing People for Fun. These people work for free. And they look for missing people... just for fun. For them it's like a hobby or even a GAME. In fact, this non-profit organization holds competitions to collect information to solve cases on missing persons.