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TIL Amazon once wrote a list of their favorite fake reviews from customers, then published it on their front page with the headline "You guys are really funny."

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VBdJk TIL the reason why schools start on September is because a holiday in the summer meant that children could work on the fields with their parents
KOm8E TIL that Russian gold-medal winning blind Paralympians are given cars for their effort, and some of them drive on a daily basis
pvRN TIL Buzz Aldrin’s Mother’s maiden name was Moon
Oop7X TIL that in 1956 the US Navy, at the request of Icelandic fishermen, destroyed hundreds of killer whales with machine guns, rockets and depth charges.
5Xd9 TIL: In 1977 we received a radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. To this day, we still don’t know where it came from