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Today I learned that Stanford did a study on how memes and other internet ideas spread.

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Zpdmv Til that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree" in 1958.
YeEd TIL The Mormon Church takes in an estimated $7 billion a year from tithing.
6ENGl TIL of Paul Alexander, one of the last few Polio survivors. He's confined to an Iron Lung and paralyzed from the neck down, yet managed to graduate from law school and wrote his memoir using only his mouth.
VMMgp TIL oranges weren't named oranges because they're orange. Also, some oranges are green.
yQd58 TIL that in China there are centres for internet addiction with treatments that can be so rough that some patients have died. Some facilities use electro-shock treatment as part of the cure, and among roughly three hundred such centres in China, there have been seven reported deaths.