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R5wxl TIL the first "Doctor Who" story directed by a woman, Paddy Russell, called "The Massacre", about French Wars of Religion, has been completely missing since 1966.
j6xMj TIL: Zoom was first called Saasbe, Inc. The name was later changed to Zoom based on the children’s book “Zoom City” by Thacher Hurd.
dBwZ TIL A study on military funding in 2009 showed that a billion dollars spent by the U.S. government on domestic matters created ~35%-~135% more jobs than the same amount of money spent on military contracts.
Z8Nmp TIL: There are actually very few countries in the world that have no snakes
nGjP TIL a World of Warcraft player had 36 accounts on 11 computers simultaneously and raided by himself