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TIL that Rockstar Games paid for Grand Theft Auto to Receive Negative Press

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7rQM TIL kids can get their drawings transformed into stuffed animals/objects/people!
0pk5 TIL that the Smithsonian was created from a donation of a wealthy Englishman that had never once set foot on American soil - and he also never wrote about or discussed the motives for this bequest.
EgbO7 TIL: A study by the Journal of Sex Research found that men who are in relationships with mentally unstable women reported a higher lvl of sexual satisfaction than other men. It also found that "lower agreeableness of a sexual partner was predictive of better sexual function in women"
kEy5 TIL that in 1993, a researcher “discovered” and actually published their method on finding the area under a curve… essentially forgetting that calculus existed for 400 years already.
QBad TIL Gmail was announced on April 1, 2004, making many believe that the service was a joke.