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TIL: Steve Jobs offered Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux a job at Apple under the condition he stopped developing for Linux. He declined the job offer.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 11:35 pm

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If you were offered unlimited power with the only condition being that you had to kill someone, would you take it and why?

by QuestionGuy August 25, 2022, 6:19 am

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TIL Virgil McCroskey purchased 4,400 acres of land for tourism in Idaho on the condition he maintain it himself for 15 years; McCroskey accepted the terms, and lived exactly 15 more years, fulfilling his obligation to the state of Idaho just weeks before his death in 1970 at age 93.

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 6:15 am

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You are offered $10 million dollars to play a game that has a manual save option under 1 condition: You have to beat the game without saving at all and without dying, fainting, or losing ALL your HP in one go and respawning. Which game can you beat without saving and dying?

by QuestionGuy August 10, 2022, 6:09 pm

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If you had to name your kid after a disease/medical condition what would you name them?

by QuestionGuy August 9, 2022, 5:36 am

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Liz Cheney will agree to dismantle the January 6 Commission under one condition

by cringeyjokesman August 2, 2022, 5:34 am

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TIL about Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a condition that can make your spine unstable and paralyze you from basic movements

by whatilearned July 14, 2022, 11:45 pm

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TIL that Gene Wilder agreed to be Willy Wonka on one condition. He said they would have to include Wonka’s entrance scene where he uses a cane, then falls, does a somersault, and jumps back up. When asked why, he said: “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 5:37 pm

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TIL some people are born tongue-tied. This anomaly restricts mobility of the tongue due to an unusually short, thick lingual frenulum, the membrane connecting the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. The condition is easily fixed by surgically cutting the frenulum

by whatilearned June 27, 2022, 11:46 am

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TIL that in 2021 the Razzie Awards developed a special category for the Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie. They later scrapped it when the actor’s aphasia diagnosis became public saying it was inappropriate to award it to someone whose performance was affected by a medical condition.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 9:19 pm

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TIL of a rare condition where a female can develop two uteruses, two cervixes and two vaginas. A condition known as Uterine Didelphys.

by whatilearned June 17, 2022, 6:55 pm

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TIL Thomas Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original condition dating back to Elizabethan era and given an honorary M.A. by University of Oxford. He parlayed his reputation as a collector of books into a career in creating and selling forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors.

by whatilearned June 11, 2022, 12:51 am

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