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TIL the accusations of Facebook secretly eavesdropping on their users’ conversations to better target advertising to those users was started by a mass communications professor who later denied the claim

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GQ1j TIL that if economic losses reported by the media industry due to piracy are true, it would equal the entire American corn crop, fruit crop, wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice, and sorghum crops. Combined.
VMGBB TIL Despite being an atheist, the famed mathematician Paul Erdős often referred to a celestial book "The Book" that contains every one of God’s perfect mathematical proofs. Two mathematicians then collected these proofs and published them in 1998, with new proofs being added over the last 2 decades.
Lxp TIL: Team USA To Be Decked Out in Uniforms Made in China | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo! News
O9XX TIL Eye movement in music reading is an extremely complex phenomenon that involves a number of unresolved issues in psychology. Despite some 30 studies in this area over the past 70 years, little is known about the underlying patterns of eye movement in music reading.
6wrJ TIL: In 2006, someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction.