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TIL in 2014, after Instagram cracked down on spam, rapper Mase lost so many followers he decided to delete his account entirely after dropping to just 100,000 followers from 1.6 million in 20 minutes.

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yOnV TIL that according to the 1995 census, the majority of American Indians prefer the term “Indian” over “Native American” in referring to them.
ZXDY TIL No, we’re not in danger of running out of helium, but once our reserves are depleted the cost of extracting it from natural gas will be so exorbitant that a single party balloon would likely cost anywhere from $100 to $170.
yQ8NX TIL that in 2012, a missing woman was found when it was discovered that she was in the search party looking for herself.
1aENr TIL that the original choice for the capital city of Australia was Dalgety, a town of now only 205 people
Z8kyo TIL We are designed to create stories as soon as we have enough informations available. The heider-Simmel illusion is a perfect example of it, as we only see triangles, lines and a circle, but still understand it as "a good one helping a circle to escape from the bad triangle after a fight".