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TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.

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kOEW7 TIL An assistant professor at Stanford created a hand powered paper centrifuge ($0.20 to make) and a paper-lense microscope($0.45-$0.55). Both helping to diagnose blood borne illnesses, such as malaria, in underdeveloped countries.
P4nV TIL Researchers at Yale did a study on teaching monkeys to use money to buy things like grapes, jello and other things. It turns out once the monkeys learned they could buy things with the money they started paying females monkeys for sex, who in turn immediately bought some sweets with it.
EZrW TIL there is a theory of evolution that suggests that mushrooms played an important role in separating the Homo Erectus from the less evolved ape. The Stoned Ape Theory
kJWn5 TIL about Frazer Lockhart and the Rocky Flats Cleanup Team. Rocky Flats was a nuclear weapons production facility with enough radioactive waste to fill 90 miles of rail cars. Frazer Lockhart, a DoE employee cleaned it up $30 billion under budget and 60 years ahead of schedule.
JYKZB TIL "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer won a Grammy Award in 1991... for Best R&B Song