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TIL that in 2014, the game Garry's Mod was hacked and caused a cough virus to spread amongst users like wildfire across servers, making them cough non-stop in the game

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KOL4J TIL Cosmetic companies list water as "aqua" because they are abiding by the INCI (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) which is a naming system for oils, pigments, chemicals, and other ingredients of cosmetics. This way everyone knows exactly what's what when they read the label.
kJ175 TIL "Lovefool" was the first song Nina Persson had written for her band, The Cardigans.
O7OL TIL that Puritans didn’t leave Britain to avoid persecution, they left because of the laws preventing them from persecuting those they thought were not practicing religion properly.
wLmR8 TIL in a eureka moment worthy of Dr. Frankenstein, scientists discovered that two 3,000-year-old mummies in Scotland were actually made from the remains of six people.
rR1w1 TIL as much as 39% of office workers masturbate at work.