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TIL that due to the fact that only 1 out of 50 subscribers to porn sites are women, some billing companies will automatically flag an account as fraud if a female name was used to register

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JYQmv TIL people with Seasonal Affective Disorder experience more prolonged secretion of night time melatonin in the winter than those without, mimicking the urge to sleep more shown in hibernating animals.
9Wdp TIL the guy who wrote and directed the movies “Jeepers Creepers” and “Jeepers Creepers 2” is a convicted sex offender for video taping and raping a 12 year old boy. 10 years after he got out of prison he was given 27 million to make these two movies.
KYJ4R TIL Brandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle. The law states the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
ANamn TIL that the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" is based on a 1945 recommendation that had no medical basis. The current recommendation is "drink when you are thirsty, unless you are outside on a hot day or are elderly- then drink a bit more."
168oW TIL that the shockwave generated by the Tsar Bomba was so powerful that it was recorded by seismic stations around the world, confirming that the seismic shockwave circled the globe three times, shattering glass windows in buildings more than 400 miles away.