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

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OD5R TIL that by playing the Tool songs Wings for Marie, 10,000 Days, and Viginti Tres in synch with each other they become a single cohesive piece of music.
ADrrB TIL toasts with butter factually tend to fall on the buttery side due to a combination of aerodynamics, inertia, and gyroscopic effects.
XArj TIL most world languages don’t distinguish between blue and green
nopb TIL that washing your hands in hot water doesn’t kill germs any better than washing them in cold water, a study found. Water hot enough to kill germs would scald your skin.
nBwB TIL that after the 1998 movie “The Man From Earth” was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publically thanked the file sharers because it “lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financier’s expectations”, and caused a rise in legal sales