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TIL Reddit founder Alex Ohanian, wrote an open letter to Reddit about stopping their sexist ways. It was titled “dear fellow geeks: WTF”

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4mn5 TIL the most common Vietnamese family name, “Nguyen”, is pronounced “Win” in English.
ZZAp TIL that in the close up shot of Bridget von Hammersmark (played by Diane Kruger) being strangled it is Tarantino’s hands being used and she is actually being strangled because Tarantino wanted to have it as realistic looking as possible.
xQdk TIL: The most recycled material in the US is asphalt. “99% of all asphalt is recycled & used to fix/build roads…US taxpayers saved $2.2B in 2011 by using recycled materials to pave roads. 66.7M tons of reclaimed asphalt pavement & 1.2M tons of reclaimed asphalt shingles went into paving projects.”
yJyv TIL that in the 1920’s, the Ford Motor Company produced so much factory wood waste that they manufactured it into charcoal and sold it under the name Ford Charcoal. The company was later renamed to Kingsford Charcoal.
DY8r TIL there are certain organs that have “immune privilege”, and will never be rejected in the case of a transplant. These include the eyes, brain, and testicles.