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TIL U.S. income inequality is now the highest it has been since 1928: 1 year before the Great Depression

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awpYJ TIL the oldest advertisement was found on a Mesopotamian stone tablet from around 4000 BC, and it was an advertisement for beer
naBG TIL that Virginia rounds up its sex offenders to be held at the courthouse during trick-or-treating hours.
Rdw4 TIL the average human sperm cell or spermocyte contains about 37.5Mb of genetic data. So when orgasm occurs, roughly 1.5Gb of data is ‘ejaculated’ in about 3 seconds, a data transfer rate 6 orders of magnitude, or a few million times, faster than an average internet connection.
6vM8 TIL The developers of “Game Dev Tycoon” released a Cracked version of the game to the PirateBay, where players can’t profit from their creations because of… Piracy
rRXg4 TIL In-N-Out Burger used to have a phone number where someone gave you directions to the nearest burger location