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TIL Drugmakers and Internet companies link U.S. pharmacy records with online accounts to target ads to people based on their health conditions and the prescription drugs they buy.

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PYnNn TIL that a single species of spiders reproduces by a process known as “traumatic insemination”, in which the male sedates the female and proceeds to pierce her abdomen with one of its two penises to directly deposit sperm on its ovaries.
d8Ye9 TIL a man was arrested for intentionally vomiting on an 11-year-old girl at a Philadelphia Phillies game
oBDgW TIL that Danny Elfman composed and performed The Little Things, soundtrack for film Wanted, in English AND Russian himself
ZpM9Q TIL on 1978, in Pennsylvania, Robert McFall, suffering from terminal aplasitc anemia, sued first cousin David Shimp to force him to give him bone marrow but court ruled against him. He died of massive hemorrhage half a month after
RQwQ TIL, the phrase “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” has been attributed to both the Nazi Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels