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TIL about "one of the biggest companies you've never heard of". Acxiom gathers information on some 700 m people, with up to 1,500 data points per person, for ultra targeted marketing. Down to the list of people who buy particular brands of cereal in your local supermarket.

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AN6gx TIL that there are a number of models to predict gravity at specific points on Earth, but due to peaks, valleys and the equivalent of rocks, sand, water and feathers (maybe not the last one) inside this big ball, there are a number of ♦gravity anomalies♦
0w1py TIL Nakam was a group of about fifty Holocaust survivors who, in 1945, sought to kill Germans and Nazis in revenge for the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. Led by Abba Kovner, the group sought to kill 6 million Germans in a form of indiscriminate revenge, "a nation for a nation".
6Wxm TIL-In ‘98, ODB once witnessed a car accident and organized a group to lift a vehicle involved in order to save a 4 year old girl. He frequently visited her in the hospital under a false name until the media caught wind of it.
4wxb TIL that in World of Warcraft, if you are drunk in-game, levels of enemies appear lower to the drunk player than they actually are, leading intoxicated players to unsuspecting deaths
XOJP TIL Roger Ebert gave a half-star review to the Power Rangers movie: “What depresses me inutterably is that children, who are fresh and inquisitive, will go to this movie and, for 88 minutes, the movie will do what it can to deaden their imaginations. ”