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TIL internet spam costs society $20 billion per year and only generates $200 million in revenue

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a1J TIL that after Selena’s slaying, gang members in Texas attempted to raise $500,000 for the bond set on Yolanda Saldivar, her killer, so that they could murder her once she was released.
4d7g TIL A woman tried to break the world record for deepest free-dive, but died during the dive. The record holder was her husband.
MLgA TIL 62,162 Americans were forcibly sterilized between 1907 and 1963 under eugenic legislation in the United States
9wPRM TIL about the 1330 Battle of Posada, where Wallachians (southeastern Romanians) decisively defeated the Hungarians and were thus able to preserve their independence.
15gd TIL that 15% of the US population believes that the pharmaceutical industry invents diseases so they can sell a cure.