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

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via reddit.com

NGeN TIL that the Iranian government can, and will, sentence its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam
QJLxX TIL that risking Court Martial, Pilot Gail Halvorsen, made parachutes out of hankies to drop chocolate bars to German children during the Berlin Airlift. This eventually led to Operation Little Vittles which dropped more than 23 tons of candy to the children of a besieged West Berlin.
ANo4B TIL there's a Nissan Juke and a Toyota Camry on the reverse side of Cambodia's 500-Riel Note
yBje TIL of the H.L. Hunley, a fully functional naval submarine used by the Confederacy in the Civil War. Powered by hand cranks and armed with bouyant torpedos, it was the first submersible vessel in history to successfully sink an enemy ship
yQpaM TIL about Leonid Rogozov, a Soviet surgeon on a 1961 Antarctic research expedition. His appendix went bad during their winter. Since they had no access to the outside world, he had to remove his own appendix almost entirely by touch, with only a novocaine shot. He was back on the job in 2 weeks.