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TIL There is a such thing as a Pornocracy which is a government run by prostitutes or officials so corrupt they act like prostitutes.

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kOdMe TIL of the half-a-million people that have died in the post 9/11 wars, a quarter-million were civilians
LR0r TIL Steve Jobs’s pancreatic cancer was curable, and that his decision to use homeopathy while resisting surgery brought him to an early grave. According to the chief of Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center’s integrative medicine department, he “…essentially committed suicide.”
xVLR1 TIL: That the original "Snake Oil Salesman" wasn't convicted of selling snake oil, he was convicted of selling FAKE snake oil. Oil from Chinese Water Snakes was considered a legit medicine at the time, but Clark Stanley was convicted in 1917 of selling fake snake oil.
w4XE TIL An Ebay listing for a sea urchin turned out to be a new species, later given the name Coelopleurus exquisitus
l77XN TIL that the birthrate in the US has declined by 20% since 2007