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TIL that Snapchat trolled Facebook on April Fool's day with a 'Facebook' filter, designed to recreate Russian bots on Facebook deployed during 2016 US Presidential election. The filter placed a Facebook UI around the photo with Cyrillic script-like text and showed likes from “your mum” and “a bot”.

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neXrr TIL that ants will refuse “medical” help from their colony if they know they are mortally wounded. Rather than waste the colony’s resources and energy on futile rehabilitation, the wounded ant flails its legs, forcing help to abandon them.
Y7ypr TIL that the power to punish pirates is explicitly mentioned in the US Constitution
R4Wl TIL a woman on vacation heard a voice in her head telling her to return home immediately. The voices gave her an address to a hospital’s brain scan department. She found she had a brain tumor. On having it operated on, the voices told her they were happy to help her and “good bye”.
8a7pV TIL about the Indian skin trade in which “poor women are being trafficked and duped into selling their skin to be used for penis and breast enlargements in the global cosmetic surgery market” (Reuters)
mY6o TIL that the Internet weighs the same as a strawberry: The weight of all the electrons in motion that make up the internet at any one moment is equivalent to 50 grams