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TIL: There’s a website that informs you on how easy (or difficult) it is to delete an account from the most popular sites on the web, places them on either a white or blacklist, and even helps you facilitate the deletion.

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bkx9 TIL prolific writer Harlan Ellison was expelled from college for hitting a professor who had denigrated his writing ability, and over the next 20-odd years he sent that professor a copy of every single story he published.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.
4dyb TIL: Jews make up 62% of religious hate crime victims in the United States.
kOBgm TIL that Singapore Changi Airport has a three storey indoor slide, a butterfly garden, and a movie theatre that screens movies for free. It has also been named the World’s Best Airport by Skytrax for the 6th year running
oBlML TIL that Spanish Big Brother staff failed to intervene when an unconscious contestant was rap.ed by another and then showed her the tape of the assault in question the following day