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TIL a man deleted his open source Javascript package from npm in 2016 and inadvertently caused service disruptions across the internet as the eleven lines of code were a dependency of many major software projects

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TIL Romans would bury their dogs in tombs and engrave them with epitaphs to remember them by

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TIL lemons aren't naturally occuring. They are a cross between a bitter orange and a citron.

truthorfiction.com

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TIL millennial dads are spending 3 times as much time with their kids than their dads spent with them

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TIL identical twins don't have identical fingerprints

sciencefocus.com

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TIL German chocolate was invented in texas

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TIL Scotland's national animal is the unicorn

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TIL the 9/11 rescue dogs started to become depressed when they weren't able to find any living people. Rescue workers had to fake being rescued to boost their morale.

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TIL Russia has 11 timezones

hindustantimes.com

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TIL hot water freezes faster than cold water

quantamagazine.org

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TIL about Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, who leaked confidential documents and letters of the papcy and Catholic church in hopes of exposing what he saw as corruption in the Vatican's business dealings.

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TIL the FBI has been struggling to hire hackers for years because applicants must not have used marijuana in the past three years.

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TIL that the Whitest Kids U Know sketch "It's Illegal to Say..." was involved in a Supreme Court case where the defendant posted an altered version of the controversial sketch's script with his wife's name being substituted in place of the President.

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TIL YuGiOh and Super Smash Bros tournaments had to introduce hygiene clauses to their rulebooks, where being dirty or smelling foul would result in a loss, due to so many players neglecting their personal hygiene.

theregister.com

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