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TIL ancient egyptians used a method of multiplication and division which is completely different to our own, but very similar to that used by computers (video 7:04)

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pY19A TIL when AOL used to charge users an hourly fee for access to their services, they would add 15 seconds to the time a user was connected to the service and round up to the next whole minute (for example, a person who used the service for 12 minutes and 46 seconds would be charged for 14 minutes).
Q096 TIL after getting lost in the desert a man tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists, he was so dehydrated his blood clotted the wounds. 9 days later he was rescued 186 miles (299km) away and had lost 40lbs (18kg) living off his urine, bats and snakes.
mxPlo TIL During the influenze pandemic of 1918-1920, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness in Germany, the UK, France, and the US. Papers were free to report the effects in Spain, giving a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit, giving rise to the name "Spanish flu".
NXpkP TIL An estimated 10 to 15 percent of abducted Africans died on their way to the coast from the interior during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Historians also estimate that between 15 and 25 percent of the enslaved Africans bound for the Americas died aboard slave ships.
6YAJ TIL Studies Show That Fat Actually Isn’t All That Bad For You. The War On Fat Was Started By One Researcher Who “Cherry-Picked” His Data To Prove That Fat Is Bad