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TIL that many, many scammers are trafficking victims forced to work in "scam factories" to target innocent people against their will.

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Vbam TIL that Apple used to add the letter “x” to the names of their computers which got a processor upgrade. The convention was broken with Macintosh SE/30, which, if the rule was effective, would be called “Macintosh SEx.”
9wya6 TIL in 1775, 80 year-old Samuel Whittemore ambushed British troops, killing three before charging them with a sword. He was shot in the face, bayoneted 6 times, and clubbed 8 times. Left for dead, he was later found reloading his musket while swearing revenge. He went on to live another 18 years
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eJNk TIL In Kurt Cobain’s suicide note, he quoted a Neil Young song saying “It’s better to burn out than fade away”. Neil Young said that “it fucked with me” and he had actually been trying to get in touch with Cobain around when his suicide happened, in order to offer encouragement.
Wko59 TIL If you stretched the DNA in one cell all the way out, it would be about 2m long and all the DNA in all your cells put together would be about twice the diameter of the Solar System.