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TIL Computers needed only 10 Likes to predict personality more accurately than a work colleague, 70 to outperform a friend or roommate, and 150 to surpass a family member. This was in 2015!

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DlVJ TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.
1YJd TIL that in December of 2000, Congress passed a federal law requiring all Americans to pause at 3 pm local time on Memorial Day to remember and honor the fallen.
dwAZ TIL - There’s nudity in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Mind = stunned
6V1m TIL that despite being commonly called “Smokey the Bear,” his name is actually just Smokey Bear.
PYKWn TIL there are microscopic living things in solid rock up to 7 km deep, called Endoliths. So little energy is available they undergo cell division once every 100 years, and some may only divide once every 10,000 years.