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TIL about Eric Simons, a then 19-year-old entrepreneur who secretly lived at AOL headquarters in California for 2 months in 2011. He ate the food, used the gym, and slept in conference rooms, all while working on his startup "ClassConnect". Employees just assumed he worked there during this time.
cnet.comSubmitted by Kyleforshort t3_zr01ga
TIL the Supreme Court established "the reindeer rule" determining that sufficient secular elements can counterbalance religious components in a public display, meaning that municipalities include reindeer in addition to religious holiday displays to avoid violating the First Amendment.
mtsu.eduSubmitted by SisyphusWasLucky t3_zrnd75
TIL Ozzy Osbourne gave up taking acid during the recording of Black Sabbath's Volume 4. He said “I took 10 tabs of acid then went for a walk in a field. I ended up standing there talking to this horse for about an hour. In the end the horse turned round and told me to fuck off. That was it for me.”
nme.comSubmitted by hanky1979 t3_zu5zsz
TIL that King Tut's tomb was unusually small, likely due to his successor taking Tut's intended tomb for his own burial. King Tut's small tomb allowed it to be forgotten and spared from robberies, which led to him becoming famous in the modern era.
en.wikipedia.orgSubmitted by No_Comparison2778 t3_zxpq1y
TIL Jacobo Pazzi was hanged next to a rotting corpse, then was buried, dug up and thrown in a ditch, then dragged through the streets, propped at the door of his palace with his head used as a doorknob, thrown in a river, fished out by children, hanged again, flogged and thrown back in the river
en.wikipedia.orgSubmitted by Ainsley-Sorsby t3_zy4xko
TIL: Horse flies have razer sharp stabbing organs with two pairs of cutting blades and a spongelike part to lap up the blood of its victim, unlike the mosquito wich will release a mild anaesthetic to its host, the female Horse fly bite will sting and continue feeding until it is full or dead.
countryliving.comSubmitted by numbarm72 t3_100zq9n
TIL Canadian artist Michael Snow sued the Toronto Eaton Centre mall in 1982 after they put Christmas bows on an art installation of flying geese which he had sculptured. This led to a landmark court case, and a leading Canadian decision on artists moral rights. Snow ultimately ended up winning.
en.wikipedia.orgSubmitted by waitingforthesun92 t3_104za76
TIL about Brady Feigl and his doppelganger, Brady Feigl. In addition to sharing a name and extreme similarities in appearance, each was a minor league baseball pitcher and had the same elbow surgery performed by the same doctor. A DNA test confirmed no relation.
cbsnews.comSubmitted by MorsesTheHorse t3_10a2vfz
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TIL actress Hattie McDaniel, the first ever African-American to win an Oscar, had one final wish when she was dying from cancer: to be buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA. Her final wish was ultimately denied, as the cemetery had a strict all-white policy at the time.
ew.comSubmitted by dennismarr t3_10dtobg