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TIL Victorians sent "Vinegar Valentines" which contained anti-love messages, caricatures, insulting poems and cost the recipient 1 penny to read.

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A11o TIL “Run” is the word with the most different meanings. The verb-form alone has no fewer than 645 meanings and Peter Gilliver worked for more than nine months to work out all of them.
GY7oG TIL that laughing while being tickled is actually a defensive mechanism because our bodies anticipate pain and automatically try to show submission to an aggressor.
QMo6 TIL internet spam costs society $20 billion per year and only generates $200 million in revenue
JN61 TIL Earl Sampson, a Florida black man, has been arrested for trespassing 62 times at the convenience store where he works.
Oo5be TIL that during prodution of Toy Story 2, Pixar accidentaly deleted the entire movie from it's servers. The movie was saved by an employee, a new mother, who worked from home and had the data saved on her personal computer.