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TIL Online abuse and trolling costs economy up to $3.7 billion, research finds (2019 article)

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mxY4y TIL that 17th century Italian biologist Francesco Redi found that tortoise's brains are so small and irrelevant that when he surgically removed them, they could continue to live for up to six months. When he entirely decapitated one, it still lived for 23 days.
bQv0 TIL While on tour with Motley Crew in 1984, Ozzy Osbourne asked Nikki Sixx for a line of cocaine. After being told there was none, Ozzy grabbed a straw, and snorted ants. Nikki confessed: “From that moment on. We knew there was always someone who was sicker and more disgusting than we were.”
j71M TIL Americans spend more money on pets yearly than Germany spends on its entire defense budget.
P1XAg TIL Paramount made a PG version of Saturday Night Fever