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TIL it is not safe to drink coyote pee

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l764a TIL: Richard Stallman, accomplished programmer, launched the GNU Project and is an eccentric advocate for Open Software and pirating. He doesn't use a cell phone, canonized himself as St. IGNUcius of the Church of Emacs, and disliked Jobs. However, he has controversial takes and resigned from MIT.
pYvkZ TIL Tacit collusion is when groups work together without an explicit agreement. One example is price leadership inwhich one company changes their prices and competitors follow. In one case automated price setting led to the book The Making of a Fly having a price of $23,698,655.93.
lm07 TIL That our sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass in our solar system.
ekPE TIL that Saudi Arabian textbooks, which are used by Muslim schools around the world, teach students that homosexuals should be executed, that Jews are “Apes”, and that Christians are “Swine”–and these are the versions that have already been toned down and scrubbed for hate-inciting speech.
K1pa TIL: Of the 7,377 Lancaster Bombers built, only 2 remain.