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TIL in 2004 someone offered to pay the government $12 for information about aliens killing JFK.

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J5l4 TIL there’s a genetic disease that causes people to stop sleeping and eventually die
lxpG TIL that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s dvd was designed to look like a bootleg since the main character is a hacker. Netflix was flooded with complaints from people that thought they’d been sent pirated copies.
xVbM7 TIL the beat of the Mission: Impossible theme song spells the letters M.I. in Morse Code: dash dash-dot dot)
oJdW TIL Polio can be transmitted via ass-to-mouth
v1JR4 TIL one of the most well-known and robust hypotheses linking household income and ecology, the luxury effect, suggests that urban biodiversity, and plant diversity in particular, is positively correlated with neighborhood wealth. This is particularly pronounced in arid ecoregions and biomes.