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TIL thousands of Enron emails are available online after they were made publicly available when Enron was being investigated by energy regulators

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9PRD TIL there exists a practice called Flashblooding, where drug addicts inject themselves with other addicts blood to attempt to keep a high going.
neAJY TIL in 2014 a Malaysian man bought a "penis enlarger" online but scammers simply sent him a magnifying glass instead
Y7yR7 TIL that for 30 years, South Korea had 110-120 boys born for every 100 girls, resulting in 700,000 to 800,000 “extra” South Korean men who now are having difficulty finding women to marry
1W8W TIL the “most succinct” world in any language is “mamihlapinatapai” and means the “unspoken and private moments shared in public where each party is fully aware of what the other is non-verbally expressing but is otherwise unwilling to vocally suggest or offer the thought.”
yVbeX TIL the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university, Yung Wing, arrived at Yale in 1850 and later helped send 120 more students to America.