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

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VBME4 TIL That the mirror doctors are portrayed as wearing on their head was meant to be worn over one of the doctor's eyes when in use.
VXP4 TIL NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead
Wrr9 TIL that Cindy Crawford won a scholarship to Northwestern for Chemical Engineering; she was also valedictorian of her high school.
p8kPZ TIL of an alleged mental disorder called 'zero stroke' which came about during German hyperinflation in the early 1920s. Those affected would write endless strings of zeros and, in some cases, state that they were ten billion years old or had forty trillion children
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