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today i learned that a coin flip isn't 50/50 but 51/49

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yQoEX TIL The Nazis produced a film inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp to falsely show the International Red Cross that the inmates were being treated humanely, the camp was 'beautified' and wholesome activities were staged. After filming, most of the actors where sent to Auschwitz and executed.
Ex5d TIL in 1985 there were 13 billionaires in the US. Today there are over a thousand.
wojEE TIL There is a list of Inventors, who died by their own Inventions on wiki. Stockton Rush (the Titan owner) was just added.
XLdk TIL that the Humor Encryption Theory explains why people have different kinds of humor, and that humor is acquired with experience.
loD8G TIL that the largest data array is being constructed in California, it will hold up to 120,000 Terabytes of memory. It’s made of 200,000 separate hard drives all interlaced.