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TIL that Yelp manipulates user reviews to give favorable ratings to businesses that pay them ad fees, and to “punish” businesses that don’t.

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9wkLQ TIL: Saudi Declares Online Satire A Punishable Offense
KNmQ TIL a man from Ohio bought $650 worth of tickets for the movie “The Interview” hoping to resell them for a higher price was declined a refund from the theater he bought them from after Sony decided to stream the movie online for half the price.
gMNQ8 TIL about a book called Cain’s Jawbone where a detective story is told through 100 pages, but the reader has to figure out the order of the pages to solve the mysteries. Only three people have solved it to date.
nExG TIL When the original people measured Mt. Everest, they added 2 ft. on it because they didn’t think people would believe it was exactly 29,000 ft.
OGQ91 TIL that the Darwin’s bark spider is one of the few non-mammalian species that engage in oral sex, with male spiders salivating onto the female's genitalia before, during, and after copulation.