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TIL In 1986, two Pakistani brothers created the first IBM PC virus not as an attack, but to protect their medical software

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5VQDR TIL there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
OGbEY TIL that grapefruit juice can interact in unpredictable ways with many drugs. This can occur even when eaten few days before taking the drugs due to the irreversal blocking of critical enzymes needed to metabolize the drug. Other fruits like citrus, apple and pomegranate have similar issues.
vVLj TIL to get into character as The Bear Jew in Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth listened to Hannah Montana songs and thought about what it’d be like if he was Hannah Montana because it took him “to a place of insanity.”
ao7o TIL that between 1996-2000, more than 250,000 indigenous women were coerced into sterilizations by the Peruvian government
p1EA TIL: Lemmy Kilmister drank a bottle of Jack Daniels everyday from 1975 to 2013.