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TIL that hair will sometimes grow back differently after chemotherapy. People who have straight hair may find that they now have curly hair or vice versa. It can even grow back a different colour 😮

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4o6g TIL a Polish Wikipedia user got his entire city banned from editing for 3 days due to him posting pictures of penises to pages related to Catholicism and Polish politics
ne4JW TIL that in 2010, a guy placed a $200 million stock exchange order that would pay off if the markets dropped. Automated trading programs overreacted, briefly crashing the markets by 10%. He then bought a bunch of stock cheap, profiting $40 million. He was identified and arrested in 2015.
a897y TIL "Hiérarchie du cocuage" is a short text by Charles Fourier, first published posthumously in the "Manuscripts of Fourier" and then in 1924 in a separate volume. It is a classification of the 79 different kinds of cuckolds.
kOAAd TIL The siren squelch at the beginning of the Emergency Broadcast System is actually a digital code that specifies who issued the alert, the type of threat, where it is affecting, and how long it is in place.
woKQo TIL that the Fahrenheit scale was standardized 18 years before Celsius. The world switch due to the British Empire. The United States is actually using the earlier standard.