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TIL The founder of match.com lost his girlfriend to someone she met on match.com

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R4kj TIL a nurse placed playing cards in obvious places on top of operating room cabinets at a hospital to test for out of body or near death experiences. Not one person ever reported seeing the playing cards or even knowing they were there.
89ML TIL it took early “humans” 110,000 generations of using stone tools before controlling fire, another 20,000 generations until written language was invented, and only another 250 generations until we put a man on the moon.
OoapX TIL In 1983 a boy named Dave was doused in kerosine and set on fire by his father burning 90% of his body. Shortly after, Michael Jackson heard about the story, met, befriended and supported Dave throughout his whole life.
jZYM TIL that there is a malicious zip file on the internet that is only 42 kilobytes when compressed, but 4.5 petabytes when unzipped (that’s 4500 terabytes or 4,500,000 gigabytes!)
e0DED TIL Michael Jackson had a friend who owned a mall close the entire thing down and populate it with people he knew to act as regular shoppers so the pop star could go shopping without being swarmed by fans.