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TIL that when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, he bragged about people trusting his site with personal information. He called the users “dumb fucks” for trusting him.

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Ne9e TIL Scientists are developing a method of erasing negative emotional memories (like a break-up) using mild electric shocks.
mOLP TIL that a civil jury found found that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been the victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police as well as federal agencies. The King family sought a mere $100 in restitution to show that they were not pursuing the case for financial gain.
N7VLb TIL Grapefruit got its name because they grow in clusters similar to grapes.
gREX TIL in Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to enter a saloon (via the sidewalk). This law was created to try to stop a local tavern keeper from getting his pet moose drunk and prevent the moose’s frequent drunken rampages.
xV8MD TIL Agnes Waterhouse was the first woman executed for witchcraft in England (1566). She was accused of turning her talking cat into a toad, which then turned into a dog with horns and threatened her neighbor with a knife. She denied it, but was found guilty and hung.