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TIL television networks transitioned away from from quality hard-news reporting, to the more entertaining and sensationalized news we see today, strictly because it was more profitable.

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5ERD TIL Trajan was the first and only Roman emperor to set foot on the shores of the Persian Gulf.
neldP TIL that a toy doll called My Friend Cayla became infamous for asking its owners personal questions, saving the answers and being hackable at the same time.
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PYvNG TIL that deer antlers are pretty much bone cancer. '"Deer antlers [are] using essentially a controlled form of bone cancer growth," says Edward Davis[...]. The involvement of the tumor-promoting genes isn't surprising, he says; what is surprising is the involvement of the cancer-controlling genes.'