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TIL Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996.

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woZp6 TIL Hewlett-Packard shipped USB keys to customers which contained malware that could allow an attacker to take over their system
reZe TIL the sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
wogkJ TIL that shaving your head doesn't make the hair grow back thicker and darker. Cutting the blunt tip just looks coarser; the follicle’s growth rate and color stay the same.
Eg6MW Today I learned Heath Ledger Was Originally Attached To Direct ’The Queen’s Gambit’ and strongly consider Elliott (Ellen at the time) Page for the lead.
wo8mY TIL of "Ice Spikes", a phenomenon that can occur in certain instances when freezing water in ice cube trays where a "spike" of ice will appear and jut up and out of the ice cube as if by magic.