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TIL: Men and women experience near equal levels of online harassment, women are more likely to be upset by it.

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vPOO7 Today i learned that Margaret Thatcher threatened to nuke Buenos Aires if the French did not give the codes to disable Exocet missiles.
YpdPZ TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.
9ljG TIL Susan Rice persuaded Bill Clinton to not take Osama Bin Laden into custody in 1997.
Dl0P TIL that an MIT-educated biologist, Katharine McCormick, inherited a substantial family fortune and funded the development of the first birth control pill in the 1950s
kbW TIL there is a staffed underwater post office where people have been mailing postcards for years.