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TIL Microsoft Sued the creators Lindows [a linux distro designed to be compatible with Windows] only to Pay THEM $20MM for the trademark rights

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yQo7e Today I learned of the slow loris, the only poisonous primate in existence. It's toxin can kill a human, and may have evolved from trying to mimic a cobra.
xVm77 TIL Neither the mafia nor other criminal organizations have used cemented shoes to drown their victims. This method has only been used in single cases to submerge (already) dead bodies
EgKgP TIL a 2013 study found that the act of chopping down trees results in greater increases in testosterone than does a directly competitive activity such a soccer. Chopping down trees saw an increase of 46.8%, whereas, soccer only saw an increase of 30.1%.
M0d8 TIL Liv Tyler has two rock star dads. Until she was 8, she was told that her adoptive father, rock legend, Todd Rundgren, was also her biological dad. After learning she was the daughter of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, she changed her last name and kept Rundgren as her middle name.
XpWr TIL: In 1991, a crowd of hundreds of people tried to play a single game Pong on a big screen, and quickly learned to do it successfully (Loren Carpenter experiment)