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TIL a Russian man changed the fine print on his credit card application to 0% APR and no fees, and got his bank to sign it.

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B08d TIL that Facebook and Instagram have an irrevocable, unlimited license to sell your photos, location, personal details and metadata - that’s everything you share on their services. Sharing your professional photographs means that you’re not the sole OWNER of the photo; they can sell it too.
nex49 TIL that freestyle in swimming technically means you can swim in any style; however the front crawl is synonymous with freestyle since it is the fastest and most efficient stroke.
xykB TIL the ‘Type A and Type B personalities’ were conceived from studies that sought to establish a link between proactive personalities and heart disease. Tobacco companies funded the studies & used them to suggest cigarettes only seemed to cause heart disease because smokers were such high achievers
VM8kD TIL the iconic plane that lands at the beginning of each Fantasy Island episode was used multiple times for drug running and seized by the DEA .
xVxK5 TIL the official measure/definition of a second (time): The duration of 9,192,631,770 ‘oscillations’ of a Caesium 133 atom at rest and at absolute zero temperature