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TIL of the Hathaway Effect: When actress Anne Hathaway is trending on social media, Wall Street algorithms buy Berkshire Hathaway stock, causing the price to spike.

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4yb6 TIL that the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), once the largest anti-cult support hotline, is now owned by the church of scientology.
YpdWd TIL of the National Defence Corps Incident. When a South Korean force of 406,000 suffered 300,000 casualties from starvation, disease and mass desertion due to High ranking officers embezzling funds earmarked for the purchase of food supplies.
1aEeV TIL that your first DUI in Wisconsin is a civil offense!
GEK7 TIL the record for the highest attendance at any NFL game was not a SuperBowl or even in America, rather, it was a match between the Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys with 112,376 in attendance at the Aztec Stadium in Mexico city
Br9xe TIL In 1988 Nancy Knight, a scientist at the National Center for Atmosphere Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA, found two identical snowflakes.