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TIL When you click UNSUBSCRIBE to spam emails, you have confirmed to the sender that your email address is both valid and in active use. So even though you’re removed from that spammers email list, your information can be sold to another spammer who will then send you even more junk mail

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6ELZ8 TIL of Talitha Kum, a network of thousands of Catholic nuns working to end subjugation of women. The religious sisters reportedly masquerade as prostitutes in order to rescue women from brothels. The term Talitha Kum is Aramaic from the Gospel of Mark which means "Maiden, I say to you, arise."
4r4b TIL that a 2014 UC Berkeley survey found that Arts and Humanities majors have most sex, while Science and Engineering majors had least sex, over HALF of the engineering major respondents were virgins
pYWMN TIL that there are 3 types of joint brokerage accounts - join tenants with rights of survivorship, tenants in common & community property.
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0wb15 TIL That Tanis - The "Lost City" was made famous by the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a real city and located in the Nile Delta northeast of Cairo, was capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties, during the reign of the Tanite kings in Egypt's Third Intermediate period.