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TIL the University of Melbourne hosted an academic event dedicated to Taylor Swift's influence called Swiftposium.

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N7vkM TIL about the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable microcomputer. Released in 1981, it weighed nearly 25 pounds, had to be plugged into the wall and cost $1,795 (or roughly $5,000 in today's dollars).
O9mg TIL that a woman without a vagina performed oral sex, got in a knife fight, and was impregnated when the sperm passed from her stomach to her uterus. This was in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
awAaL TIL The traditional "last meal" on a death row didn't begin as a compassionate act but as a way to bribe their ghost not to haunt the executioners
p1NA TIL: Hacker, Kevin Mitnick, spent eight months in solitary confinement after law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to “start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone.”
Jn8k TIL that Columbia Records had to force the Beastie Boys to rename their album License to Ill. The original album name: “Don’t Be a Faggot”