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TIL that there is a high school in China where students study from 6.20am to 11pm to prepare for college admission exam (gaokao)

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AB77 TIL hacker Samy Kamkar created a Myspace virus, which made anyone that looked at his profile automatically become his Myspace friend. It spread at a rate of 1000 accounts becoming his friend every second, resulting in over 1 million friends. Samy was raided by the Secret Service and got probation.
ZA7G TIL there is an island in Italy that is so haunted no one is allowed to go there. It is called Poveglia, a dump site for plague and black death victims & corpses, and later the site of an insane asylum.
vPpWR TIL about the time Elton John dressed up in a gorilla costume, ran up on stage and freaked out an extremely stoned Iggy Pop.
ljGa TIL The word for a black man in the Irish language literally means “blue man” because the term for black man was used to refer to the devil.
Z6eo TIL that Leonard Nimoy sings a very interesting song about Bilbo Baggins.