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TIL the FBI maintains an 83-page glossary of Internet slang. And it is hilariously, frighteningly out of touch.

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j66np TIL: A Dolphin named Peter, fell in love with an adult Female Human and committed suicide after the two were separated…
XLAj TIL our current model of physics only works for 4% of the matter/energy in the universe
Yend TIL that “Nacho Libre” was based upon a Catholic priest turned luchador who called himself “Fray Tormenta” (Friar Storm); he supported an orphanage for 23 years with his second career.
WknG4 TIL that George Newhall and Tom Yohe, co-creators of the "School House Rock" series of educational short songs, produced a similar series for NBC in 1978 called "The Metric Marvels" to teach kids about the metric system in support of the US' short-lived transition to metric.
0Gdy TIL that a major cause of human rabies deaths in India is faith healing as people believe that they’ve been impregnated by puppies after being bitten by a dog and consult a healer instead of a doctor before it’s too late. This mass hysteria is called Puppy pregnancy syndrome.