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TIL that the popular MMO EVE Online hired an economist to oversee the in-game money. Besides writing internal reports, he occasionally intervenes to prevent inflation and unintended market consequences. EVE has about 500k users who partake in the game's hyper-libertarian online economy.

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grm6X TIL on 30 1993, CERN opened the World Wide Web, "a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents," when it established the very first URL, http://info.cern.ch. It's still there.
Xly8 TIL Hitler and Nazi officials outlawed animal cruelty including the boiling of live lobsters.
gMaKX TIL There are three main fart smells. Hydrogen sulfide produces the signature "rotten eggs" note, methanethiol produces hints of "decomposing vegetables," and dimethyl sulfide adds a hint of "sweetness."
epg04 TIL there were 8 US Presidents that filed for Bankruptcy
WkKao TIL Rita Hayworth, "The Love Goddess", was first billed as Rita Cansino and was judged "too Mediterranean" before having her hairline raised by painful electrolysis, changed her hair colour to dark red and took her mother's maiden name. She was a third generation professional dancer.