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TIL Imgur is creating tools that will let users track their images across the Web and see where they’re reposted

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p5KA TIL Mao Zedong killed 4.5x more people than Hitler did
9Yplp TIL that when learning new phrases in a foreign language, hearing those phrases sung and then singing them has been shown to lead to better results than hearing them spoken normally and then repeating them the same way.
ML57 TIL that Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest - to a man.
XEe06 TIL men traveling first class tend to weigh more than those in economy, while for women the reverse is true.
9wdPG TIL that in the 90s, British sports car maker TVR were developing the 800+bhp Cerbera Speed 12. Company boss Peter Wheeler took one home for a test drive, and immediately realised it was too extreme and powerful to be sold to the public. Ultimately, only one road-legal example was ever made.