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TIL that a study found that Internet trolls tended to have personality traits related to sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, and that the link between trolling and sadism was the strongest out of all three traits.

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yQ6kV TIL Jeremy Clarkson was fired from "Top Gear" for punching a producer who told him the hotel kitchen was closed.
6Pr8 TIL that Jim Carrey was chosen to play Captain Jack Sparrow, but turned it down to be in Bruce Almighty
j6yQN TIL 12-year-old Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Indian Ocean that killed her mom & 151 others. She had little swimming experience & no life vest. So she clung to a piece of the wreckage & floated in heavy seas for over 9 hours, much of it in darkness, before being rescued.
njgW TIL that oral sex was illegal in 11 US states until 2003
9YYOM TIL Ohio Congressman Ralph Regula spearheaded an effort to prevent renaming Mt McKinley to Denali from 1975 to 2009 because it would tarnish the legacy of Ohio-born President McKinley (who had no ties to Alaska or the mountain).