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

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OjyY TIL There is a real life Hogwarts school in Poland. For $384, you can learn at the “College of Wizardry”, an epic 4 day LARP event where you will learn spells, be sorted into a house, interact with magical creatures and stay in a replica of the Hogwarts castle.
9wKkM TIL Thomas Cromwell led the persecution of Anne Boleyn based on a prophecy of "secret treason" against Henry VIII by "children of unbelief." Anne opposed Cromwell's harder line on the church but when a priest close to her attacked Cromwell in a sermon Cromwell became convinced the prophecy was true.
P18Ae TIL The smell of cut grass is an SOS calling beneficial insects like parasitic wasps to help resist plant attacks
Boly TIL that Prof. Benjamin has been arguing that highschool students should not be thought calculus, and should learn statistics instead. While calculus is very important for a limited subset of people, statistics is vital in everyone’s day-to-day lives.
KYwNQ TIL Vanilla Ice bought the royalties for "Under Pressure" to end the lawsuit over "Ice Ice Baby" which had sampled the bass line.