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TIL 9% of Americans believe that space aliens or beings from another dimension were involved in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

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78LkX TIL that in WW2, "unrestricted submarine warfare" - the sinking of merchant ships by submarines without warning - was ordered in response to allied aircraft illegally bombing a Nazi submarine under Red Cross banner openly attempting to rescue survivors of the RMS Laconia.
8exka TIL the opposite of jealousy is compersion
LZbp TIL that you could still play original Edison’s kinetoscope filmstrips on modern projectors, because the 35mm format remained the same.
EQbW TIL that when Tomohiro Nishikado created Space Invaders, he discovered that the processor lag reduced greatly with fewer Invaders on the screen. Rather than compensate, he left it as is; potentially inventing incremental difficulty in video games.
705X TIL A typical Rihanna single hit costs around $75,000 to make, another million to promote it, and the lyrics are written in about 15 minutes.