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TIL People are still falling for Nigerian Prince scams, and Americans are losing over $700,000 every year to these scams.

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OZKa TIL there is a software house which still develops games for Commodore 64, ZX81 etc.
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XvxP TIL A New York ad agency tried marketing laundry detergent to Arab consumers through the use of sequential pictures showing laundry being cleaned. However, the advertisers didn’t realize Arabic was read from right to left and their ad actually depicted the detergent soiling the clothing after wash
YYnA TIL nuclear power is by far safest power source in the world, and yet it is also the most feared.
g7W7 TIL that when Marie Curie’s body was exhumed it was found that her radium levels were below the acceptable limit. She likely got cancer from her early work in the military, not from her pioneering research into radioactivity.