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TIL That Mark Zuckerberg used failed log-in attempts from Facebook users to break into users private email accounts and read their emails.

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oBX7W TIL Tchaikovsky, famous Russian classical composer, lived a life of tragedy. His mother died while he was in boarding school, his close friend died, his 13-year relationship ended, he had to keep his homosexuality private all his life, and he died a sudden death at 53 years old.
8epyL TIL that the longest word in the English language is over 189,000 letters long and takes over 3 hours to pronounce
6E49l TIL Avocados are toxic to horses; they can cause respiratory distress, heart failure, and death.
e0Gek TIL apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas). It is not restricted to just seeing shapes at unexpected places. It also includes perceiving patterns in meaningl
WjyN TIL that virtually all Middle Ages scholars believed that the Earth is spherical. The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching.