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TIL there is paper made out of stone which is water proof, recyclable and works with inkjet printers

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kG54 TIL that Digg, a social news aggregator, was extremely popular and almost sold to Google for $200M. Instead, they began to censor their own community and make arbitrary management decisions that drove the community away to newer, less-oppressive sites like Reddit
OGGVY TIL: During the Gallipoli campaign a famed war correspondent tasked Keith Murdoch with smuggling a letter back to Britain criticizing the campaign. Military press censors stopped Murdoch and confiscated the letter, Murdoch simply copied the letter from memory and added his name.
XEjJP TIL There is a deep-sea fish with a completely transparent head named Barreleye aka Spook Fish
LkkxZ TIL it is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey
Z8Pga TIL the train schedule in Tokyo is so reliable that if they run more than 5 minutes late, they issue a note to passengers to prove to their employers that it was the train's fault they were late to work